Backwoods Home Magazine #126 - Nov/Dec 2010

Basic cheese making; a guide to buying silver and gold; finding wealth you can wear at yard sales; cold weather shooting considerations; life-saving snowshoes; John Silveira discusses how we can escape from the current recession; installing a steel roof; Richard Blunt discusses the history and cooking of fried foods; making a hand-built rope bed; using Khaki Campbell ducks as egg layers; how to give a haircut; making homemade gift baskets; and how cops get themselves out of a recession by giving out excessive traffic tickets. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about using dried tomato powder, tomato pickles, trouble with Rutgers tomatoes, GM seed, Yukon Gold potatoes, hollow potatoes, making lye soap, waterless canning, salty goat milk, the fall pea crop, old pinto beans, powdered milk, wood beetles, and canning milk.