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| Introduction | |
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| Vegetables and Fruits | |
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| Choosing Vegetable and Fruit Varieties | |
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| Harvesting Vegetables and Fruits | |
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| harvesting vegetables | |
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| harvesting fruits | |
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| handling food after harvest | |
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| Freezing Vegetables and Fruits | |
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| containers to use for freezing | |
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| freezer organization | |
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| thawing vegetables and fruits | |
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| how and why to blanch vegetablesblanching in a microwave | |
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| blanching in a pressure canner | |
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| steps to follow for freezing vegetables | |
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| preparing vegetables for freezing | |
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| freezing grape leaves | |
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| freezing fruits | |
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| preparing fruits for freezing | |
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| what to do if the freezer stops running | |
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| freezing herbs | |
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| Canning Vegetables and Fruits | |
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| sterilizing food | |
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| choosing and preparing your vegetables and fruits | |
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| headspacecanners | |
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| closurestin cansraw packs and hot pack | |
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| schecking seal | |
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| slabeling | |
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| storing canned foods | |
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| spoiled food | |
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| canning fruits | |
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| step-by-step processing of fruits, tomatoes, and pickled vegetables | |
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| step-by-step processing of vegetables | |
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| Drying Vegetables and Fruits | |
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| why drying works | |
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| nutritional value | |
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| preparing food for drying | |
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| blanching | |
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| drying vegetables | |
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| sun-dried tomatoes | |
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| special techniques for drying peas, beans, and corndrying fruits | |
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| don''t microwave your food dry | |
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| temperature and ventilation | |
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| drying outdoors | |
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| drying indoors | |
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| oven drying | |
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| home dryers | |
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| electrical dryers | |
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| stovetop dryers | |
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| solar dryer | |
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| sour solar dryer | |
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| a low-cost indoor dryer | |
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| when your food is dry | |
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| storing | |
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| freeze-drying: good, but not at home | |
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| rehydrating | |
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| cooking dried vegetables and fruits | |
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| using dried foods | |
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| fruit pur�e | |
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| fruit and vegetable flour | |
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| fruit leatherherbs | |
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| Underground Storage | |
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| vegetables | |
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| fruits | |
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| good storage conditions | |
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| where to store your stash | |
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| storage containers | |
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| Pickles and Relishes | |
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| salt-free pickle | |
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| singredientsequipmentcanning pickled foods | |
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| step-by-step directions for canning in a boiling-water bath | |
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| storing pickles | |
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| brine curing | |
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| Euell Gibbons''s dill crock | |
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| if your pickles failsigns of spoilagesauerkraut | |
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| pickles | |
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| pickled vegetables | |
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| relishes | |
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| pickled fruits | |
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| chutneys | |
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| mustards | |
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| Jams, Jellies, and Fruit Butters | |
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| jams and jellies with honey | |
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| cooked-down and pectin jams and jellies | |
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| homemade pectin | |
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| extracting juice for jellies | |
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| jams and preserves from frozen fruitjelly tests | |
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| if your jellied fruits fail | |
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| uncooked jams and jellies | |
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| using artificial sweetener | |
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| using low-methoxyl pectin | |
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| filling and sealing containers | |
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| step-by-step directions for canning in a boiling-water bath | |
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| making fruit butters | |
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| fruit butters | |
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| jams | |
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| jellies | |
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| preserves | |
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| conservesmarmaladesJuicing Your Harvest | |
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| tomato and fruit juices | |
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| steam-juicing fruits | |
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| using juicers | |
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| apple cider | |
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| turning apple cider into vinegar | |
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| herb vinegars | |
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| pickling with homemade vinegar | |
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| juicesVegetable and Fruit Recipes | |
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| Dairy Foods | |
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| Storing Milk, Cream, and Eggs | |
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| freezing milk and cream | |
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| eggsold-fashioned storage methods | |
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| freezing eggs | |
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| Homemade Butter | |
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| separating the cream | |
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| chilling and ripening the cream | |
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| churningtaking off the butter | |
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| milkwashing and working the butter | |
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| butter in a blenderin a food processor | |
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| using an electric mixerusing a glass jar | |
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| if you have trouble | |
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| salting and storing butter | |
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| butters | |
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| Homemade Cheeses | |
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| equipmentingredientsstoring cheeses | |
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| cottage cheese | |
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| ricottacream cheese | |
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| plain, semihard cheese | |
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| cheddar cheese | |
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| Homemade Yogurt and Other Fermented Milk Products | |
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| yogurta thicker yogurt | |
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| using a yogurt maker | |
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| making yogurt in the ovenin a covered casserolein a thermos | |
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| what can go wrong | |
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| yogurt cream cheese | |
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| kefirpiima | |
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| Homemade Ice Creams | |
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| hand-crankedelectrically cranked | |
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| freezer ice creams | |
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| herbet and sorbet | |
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| how-to''sadding fruits and nuts | |
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| storingice creams | |
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| sherbets and ices (sorbets) | |
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| Dairy Recipes | |
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| Meats, Poultry, and Fish | |
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| Preparing Meats and Poultry for Storage | |
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| butchering your own meat | |
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| preparing wild meats | |
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| if you''re having your meat butcheredhead | |
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| cheese and other pressed meat | |
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| srendering lardsausagepoultry | |
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| Freezing Meats and Poultry | |
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| freezing in bulk | |
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| what wraps to use | |
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| freezing combination dishes | |
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| freezing soup stock | |
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| quick freezing | |
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| thawing and cooking frozen meat and poultry | |
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| Canning and Drying Meats and Poultry | |
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| canning equipment | |
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| canning jars and cans | |
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| step-by-step directions for canning | |
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| signs of spoilage | |
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| storagedirections for processing meats | |
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| drying meats | |
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| salt alert | |
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| Preparing and Storing Fish | |
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| cleaning and dressing fin fish | |
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| clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops | |
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| crabs, lobsters, and cray | |
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| fishshrimp | |
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| freezing fresh-caught fish | |
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| thawing and cooking frozen fish | |
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| extending the refrigerator life of fish | |
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| canningfish recipes | |
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| drying | |
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| Meat and Poultry Recipes | |
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| Nuts, Seeds, Grains, and Sprouts | |
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| Nuts and Seeds | |
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| harvesting tree nuts | |
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| hulling | |
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| drying | |
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| cracking | |
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| harvesting and curing peanuts | |
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| storing shelled nuts | |
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| sunflower seeds | |
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| pumpkin seeds | |
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| nut and seed butters | |
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| Grainsreally fresh flour | |
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| storing bread | |
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| freezing baked bread | |
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| thawing bread | |
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| making breads moister | |
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| freezing unbaked bread dough | |
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| storing store-bought grains | |
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| harvesting and storing your own grains | |
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| Sproutsthe how-to''sstoring and using sproutsdiastatic maltsprouts'' vital statisticsNut, Seed, Grain, and Sprout Recipes | |
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| Appendix | |
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| books, booklets, supplies | |
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| Index | |