Thank you for purchasing my latest cookbook, The Modern Pioneer Pantry. I hope this book and the videos on my Mary’s Nest YouTube channel will help you create a well-stocked pantry full of a wide variety of nutritious and delicious preserved food.
In this chapter’s QR code page, I’ll provide you with additional information and links to help you learn more about dehydrating. I focus first on showing you the easy way to get started with food drying by dehydrating frozen vegetables, then I move on to demonstrating how to make Homemade Bouillon Powder, plus I give you links to my other dehydrating recipes and videos too.
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Table of Contents
- The Easy Way To Get Started
- Why Homemade Bouillon Powder?
- Stop Buying Vegetable Bouillon Cubes
- Drying and Dehydrating Recipes
- More Dehydrating 101 Videos
- Filling Your Four Corners Pantry with Traditional Foods
- The Modern Pioneer Cookbook
- FREE CHECKLISTS You Need Now!
- Download Your Free 36-Page Pantry List
- Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy
- Kitchen Academy Videos
The Easy Way To Get Started
The secret to dehydrating vegetables the easy way is to start with frozen vegetables! The food manufacturers have already washed, cut, and blanched the vegetables before freezing them. Their hard work means you can skip those steps. Instead, you can quickly start the dehydrating process by softening the frozen vegetables with some warm water before dehydrating them.
If you started with raw vegetables, you’d have to clean and cut them before laying them out on your dehydrator rack. If you have the time and grew the vegetables, or if you could get a bunch of vegetables at deeply discounted prices, it would be worth your while to start with raw vegetables for the dehydrating process.
However, you can often find a lot of bargains on frozen vegetables that will save you time and money over using their raw counterparts. Then, instead of storing those frozen vegetables where they can take up a lot of space in your freezer, you can follow my video instructions where I show you how to dehydrate them for long-term storage in your Extended or Prepper Pantry.
Why Homemade Bouillon Powder?
Bouillon powder of any kind—beef, chicken, or vegetable—is an essential ingredient to have in your pantry. Unfortunately, store-bought bouillon contains assorted chemicals, preservatives, and artificial colorings that we don’t want to bring into our traditional foods kitchen.
So what can you do? Make homemade bouillon powder by following the easy and affordable recipe in my How to Make Chicken Bouillon Powder in the Oven or Dehydrator. Making chicken bouillon powder is especially economical if you use your homemade Roast Chicken Bone Broth as the base. Roast chicken bone broth only costs pennies a jar to make since you use the carcass of a roast chicken—something many folks throw out—to make your bone broth.
Stop Buying Vegetable Bouillon Cubes
I stopped buying vegetable bouillon cubes years ago and decided just to start making my own. My How to Make Homemade Vegetable Bouillon recipe isn’t exactly for a cube. It’s actually a paste, but it works the same way as the cubes.
If you want to extend the life of your vegetable bouillon you can easily dehydrate vegetable bouillon to make it into a powder.
Looking for more easy homemade ways to flavor foods? Try your hand at dehydrating mirepoix and making chicken bouillon powder. If you prefer, broth you will love this chicken bone broth that’s perfect to use as the base for all your favorite soups and stews.
Drying and Dehydrating Recipes
How to Dehydrate Herbs the Easy Way
Learn simple ways to dry herbs using air, oven, or dehydrator for flavorful, long-lasting results.
How to Dehydrate Vegetables the Easy Way
Learn how easy it is to stock your pantry with dehydrated vegetables.
How to Make Tomato Powder
Create this delightfully tasty flavoring powder in the oven or the dehydrator.
More Dehydrating 101 Videos
To learn more about dehydrating and to try out other dehydrating recipes, watch the following videos. (These older videos don’t have an accompanying blog post yet, but I’m in the process of adding web page content over time.)
Filling Your Four Corners Pantry with Traditional Foods
If you’re looking for a printed book full of my traditional foods recipes that shows you how to create a traditional foods kitchen, be sure to order your copy of my bestselling book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook.
Order YOUR COPY Now!
The Modern Pioneer Cookbook
Seasonal ingredients, traditional techniques, and nourishing recipes. Over 85 traditional, from-scratch recipes! Discover for yourself how you can use simple ingredients and traditional techniques to cook the modern pioneer way.
And if you are teaching children in grades K through 12 how to make traditional foods, be sure to download my FREE Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum to use in conjunction with my cookbook.
FREE CHECKLISTS You Need Now!
As you learn how to Prep Like a Pro when stocking your Four Corners Pantry, be sure to download all the checklists that I have prepared for you. You can keep them on your computer or phone, but I highly recommend printing them out and putting them in your Kitchen Journal so that you always have a hard copy!
How to Make Meal Prep Fast with the Meal-in-a-Bag System
Make meal prep fast and easy with these seven free recipes you can download and print out to create your own Meals in Bags.
The FREE Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum – Teach Traditional Cooking Skills to Grades K-12
This cookbook curriculum gives students a love of traditional foods and kitchen skills that will last them a lifetime.
27 Best Survival Foods to Stock NOW in Your Prepper Pantry
Download the free Survival Pantry Checklist and make sure your Prepper Pantry is well-stocked for the long term.
Download Your Free 36-Page Pantry List
For an extensive list of the traditional foods you can make and purchase to stock your pantry, be sure to download my free 36-page Traditional Foods Pantry List. This comprehensive eBook is full of links to recipe videos, helpful articles, and more!
Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy
Are you looking for more traditional foods videos? If so, I invite you to join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy. Members of this optional paid YouTube community get access to exclusive videos and other members-only perks. Plus, your YouTube comments include a special members-only badge.
Kitchen Academy Videos
How to Make Oatmeal Higher in Protein (The Old-Fashioned Way)
Turn simple oats into a hearty, protein-rich porridge.
The Only Traditional Recipes You’ll Ever Need!
Focus on traditional recipes with real food. Don’t chase trends.
Let’s Talk Akkermansia: A Tiny Helper for Big Gut Health
Discover how Akkermansia muciniphila supports gut and immune health—and how traditional foods help this mighty microbe thrive.
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- Order The Modern Pioneer Pantry - Get Mary's latest hardcover cookbook about preserving food and making delicious meals from your Four Corners Pantry. Mary's second cookbook is also published by Penguin Random House.
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