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Love it, got to try to do it one day. I totally agree about recipes, I still buy cookbooks but rarely look at them afterwards and get myself into extraordinary pickles if I’m trying to be good- following them to the letter. Often it’s because the method starts to feel so familiar that it’s easy to go off piste and just create something new / else. I never know how it’s supposed to be unless there’s a photograph of the finished article 🤣

Whenever I’m asked for my recipes I try to remember what I did before and then tell them it’s not imperative to do certain things in order. Experimenting is the key of life & love ❤️

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I love cooking as well Ms Bearden. I too take the same approach as you and am in complete agreement with your article. I couldn’t have wrote it better myself. Thank You for the recipe for yogurt by the way! ~Vicky

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Apr 19, 2023Liked by Charlotte Freeman

I love the instruction to hold your pinkie in the warmed milk instead of using a thermometer. (Bah, humbug!) Our bodies can be pretty accurate about these things but we've really dulled our senses.

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As I rush through my life for no really good reason, I am constantly rebuking my myself with the trite but true refrain, haste makes waste. Wasted time, rushed moments only to do whatever it is all over again. It puts me in the mind of another adage: measure twice, cut once.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by Charlotte Freeman

So many people look at recipes like they were following the instructions on rebuilding a carburetor. Experiment!

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The hot water in the cooler trick sounds good.

My Excalibur food dehydrator works well for making yogurt.

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