40 Delicious Pioneer Recipes You Can Replicate • New Life On A Homestead

Food, glorious food, we’re anxious to try it…Okay, okay, I won’t sing anymore, but this is going to be fun and drool-inducing! I’ve been cooking since I was about 10 years old.As a cub scout, I had to cook three meals for my cooking badge (yes, that is a thing). These three meals had to be baked, cooked on a stove, and cooked over an open fire.With that in mind, I made a cake (lemon if you want to know) for my mom’s birthday, spaghetti, and meatballs for the stove-cooked meal, and the barbeque was steak, sausages, and corn on the cob.Now, while the barbeque didn’t quite go according to plan (I burned the potatoes), I very quickly came to enjoy cooking. In a time full of complicated, messy recipes, I wanted to look at some simpler ones that are easy to make.I couldn’t do modern recipes though, that’d be more than a little bit boring, wouldn’t it? Instead, I’m going to share the easiest pioneer recipes to replicate.Who’s hungry?1. Potato CakesConsidering the long journeys taken by the pi...