Ice cream is a delicious frozen food that is a real treat when it’s homemade. Making ice cream at home can be a fun family project with a job for everyone. If you have a hand cranked or electric ice cream freezer, everyone can enjoy a tasty dessert right from the freezer. The most important [...]

What is Herbal Soap?Herbal soap is a kind of soap mixed with natural ingredients, juice or extract and vitamins from medicinal plants. How to Prepare Herbal Soap:Utensils:Plastic pailWooden ladle or bamboo stickGlass or cupMortar and pestleCheese cloth or strainerKnifeChopping boardCooking pot (preferably made of clay, enamel, stainless or glass)StovePlastic molders Akapulko and Guava Soap: How [...]

Instead of throwing away our banana peelings, we can use it to make vinegar. The procedure is very simple as shown below. MATERIALS:banana peels – 1 kgwater – 8 cupsugar – 1½ cupbaker’s yeast – ½ tvinegar starter – 1 cup UTENSILS:measuring cupmeasuring spoonknifechopping boardcasserolestovecheese clothwide-mouthed glass jarsthermometer PROCEDURE:1. Slice a kilo of banana peel, [...]

During season of fruits, we should avoid throwing the unsold overripe fruits, instead we can make them into expensive vinegars. The procedure is very simple as outlined below. MATERIALS:ripe fruits 2 kgwater 6 Lyeast 2 tspvinegar starter 8 csugar 4 c UTENSILS:measuring cupmeasuring spoonknifechopping boardcasserolestovecheeseclothwide-mouthed glass jarsthermometer PROCEDURE:1. Mash pulp of ripe fruits (pineapple, etc.)2. [...]

MATERIALS:kalabasa peels & cores 1 kgsugar 1 ½ cyeast ½ tspvinegar starter 1 c UTENSILS:measuring cupmeasuring spoonknifechopping boardcasserolestovecheeseclothwide-mouthed glass jarsthermometer PROCEDURE:1. Wash peels and cores of kalabasa, add three (3) parts water for every part of peel. Boil for 15 minutes.2. Strain, add 4 c water for every 4 cups of strained liquid from boiled [...]

Materials:4 L tomato pulp4 cups sugar½ tsp cinnamon powder½ tsp pepper powder½ tsp cloves powder½ tsp paprika½ cup fresh onions2 cups vinegar (4.5% acidity)2 tsp sodium benzoate (optional)3 tbsp cornstarch dissolved in 1 cup water Utensils:stainless/enameled kettlemeasuring cups and spoonschopping boardknifestovethermometerstrainer, stainlesswooden ladlecasserole, stainlesscolanderbowlblender (optional) Packaging material:sterilized glass jars with new caps Procedure:1. Select and [...]

Materials:1 kg tomatoes1 tsp salt½ tsp sugarcornstarchsodium benzoate (optional) Packaging material:sterilized glass jars with PVC caps Utensils:stainless/enameled kettlemeasuring spoonscasserole, stainlessblender (optional)stovestrainer, stainlessbowlwooden ladlechopping boardknifecolanderthermometer Procedure:1. Sort and wash ripe, fleshly red tomatoes.2. Blanch for 30 seconds and immediately dip in cold water. Remove skin and cut into halves (crosswise).3. Strain the seeds through fine mesh [...]

MATERIALS:Soybeans – ½ kgSalt solution – 6 li or 24 cMold (Aspergillus Oryzae)Flour – ½ kgRice bran – ½ tsp“Kaolin” – 8 tbsp PROCEDURE:Clean, wash and soak soybeans overnight. Drain well. Put soybeans in a casserole and cook until soft. Cook soybeans in a pressure cooker (15-lb pressure) for 1 hour or cook until tender. [...]

Materials needed:green bananas, saba or cardabasalt Utensils needed:solar dryerchopping boardmeasuring cups/spoonbasinknifegrindersifter Packaging materials:plastic bag Procedure:1. Prepare brine solution; 1 tbsp. salt to 5 cups water.2. Wash bananas and peel. Soak immediately in brine solution.3. Wash again to remove latex.4. Cut into halves and remove seeds.5. Slice longitudinally at 1/3 cm. thick.6. Dry in solar dryer [...]

MOLD MAKING – Silicon rubber mold MATERIALS:silicon rubber modeling toolsice cream cupcatalystknifebasahanmodeling clayblade cuttersmall basinpetroleum jellyscissorsplaster of parisnylon brush PROCEDURE: A. Preparation of one-sided silicon rubber mold:1. Prepare original model (preferably intricate designs such as animal figures, birds, fruits, etc.) and apply petroleum jelly to the surface of the model.2. Put clay barricade around the [...]

Materials: paraffin wax candle mold (metal, plaster, silicon rubber mold, etc.)-polyethylene stoves (gas/electric stove) wick for candle (cotton wick) double boiler container technical dye (oil soluble color) storage racks essential oil (synthetic/organic oil) wick holder (bamboo stick) laboratory thermometer stirrer (wood/bamboo) weighing scale (10-kilo capacity) blade cutter (big size) scissors Procedure:1. Prepare the mold. If [...]

RAW MATERIALS:1 kg. fresh coconut, grated325 mL or 1¼ cups glacial acetic acid600 g or 3 cups refined sugar500 ml or 2 cups coconut water12 L tap water2 L nata starter* PROCEDURE:1. Mix grated coconut with water. Strain thru cheesecloth.2. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix.3. Pour the mixture into clean sterile fermenting [...]

For this purpose, a practical method for rural application and based on the subtractive method has been developed since it gives a high percentage of recovery of oil using ordinary household utensils. A detailed description of the process is as follows: Grate the coconuts. Weigh the grated coconuts. Press out the cream of the grated [...]

INGREDIENTS:2 cups coconut ‘sapal’¼ cup flour1 tsp salt5 tsp toyo1 egg2 tsp cornstarch¼ tsp vetsin (optional)¼ tsp black pepper¼ cup chopped onions UTENSILS:steamermeasuring cups and spoonsfrying panstrainer PACKAGING MATERIAL:PP/PE plastic bags PROCEDURE:1. Steam the coconut sapal for 10-15 minutes.2. Mix all ingredients and form patties.3. Fry in hot oil. Source: DOST, photo from:flickr.com

Ingredients:3 eggs¾ cup condensed milk1 tsp vanilla4 cups desiccated coconut2/3 cup sugar1 tbsp butter or margarine Utensils:mixing bowleggbeaterwooden ladlemeasuring cups and spoonsoven Packaging Materials:paper cupsstyrofor with plastic cover Procedure:Beat eggs till light and fluffy. Add butter or margarine and sugar, then beat thoroughly. Add vanilla, condensed milk and desiccated coconut. Grease paper cups and fill [...]

INGREDIENTS:1 cup grated coconut1 tbsp flour½ cup evaporated milk2 egg yolks1 tsp vanilla¼ cup crushed pineapple6 tbsp chopped toasted peanuts PACKAGING MATERIAL:¾ cup sugar paper boxes UTENSILS:measuring cups and spoonswooden ladlesaucepanstoveoven PROCEDURE:1. Mix the coconut, sugar, pineapple and cook until almost done.2. Add milk. Cook over low heat with constant stirring.3. Add the slightly beaten [...]

Starting a business can be a rewarding undertaking, but it comes with its challenges. Before starting a business in, it is wise to do your research. Ask yourself if you are truly suited for entrepreneurship and understand that significant effort may be required. You should thoroughly enjoy the field you are getting into and you [...]

Ingredients and their Weight:Pork belly 1 kgSalt 22.0 gSugar 11.2 gPrague powder 6.8 g Procedure:1. Mix all ingredients.2. Rub the mixture in step 1 on the belly slubs evenly.3. Place the belly slubs on the top of one another.4. Cure for 12 days per kilo meat. Overhaul the meat every other day.5. Wash in water [...]

Ingredients and their WeightHam 1.0 kg. Pickling Solution:Salt 19.8 gSugar 4.6 gPrague powder 4.2 gPhosphates 3.0 gWater 100 ml Dry Mixtures:Salt 28.0 gSugar 6.0 gPrague powder 6.0 g Procedures:1. Trim ham and clean with cool water.2. Drip for 20 – 30 minutes.3. Dissolve all ingredients for the pickle solution.4. Inject at all different points of [...]

Seaweeds must be harvested from the sea very early in the morning or while the tide is still low. Procedure:1. Wash the seaweeds very well, drain and dry (Spread over a wire or bamboo screen for the purpose) for a week.2. To remove the fishy odor and taste, soak and dry the seaweeds in fresh [...]

Procedure:* Peel ripe bananas and slice thinly* Measure. To every one part sliced bananas, add one-and-one-a-half parts water.* Boil for 30 minutes or longer depending upon the quantity of the pulp.* Strain* Add sugar to the extract (one part sugar to every three parts extract).* Stir and boil to dissolve the sugar. Sugar content should [...]

I read a post in jandrhanson blog about beer making. It is so simple you can do it yourself in your kitchen in about 15 minutes. You can modify this method, of course, you only have to remember that the more sugar, and if fruits are used; the brewing will create a stronger drink. Here [...]

1. DTI-BTRCP Registration – It is necessary to register your business with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Bureau of Trade Regulation and Consumer Protection (BTRCP) because you will gain the exclusive right to establish and use your business name. It also offers protection from those could take advantage of your name. [...]

Cooperative is a duly registered association of persons, with a common bond of interest, who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common social or economic end, making equitable to contributions to the capital required and accepting a fair share of the risks and benefits of the undertaking in accordance with university accepted cooperative [...]

Ingredients and Equipment :4 cups saltWaterStrainerKnife and chopping board2 kilos fresh milkfishSmokehouse Procedure:1. Wash and clean the fish thoroughly. Place in strainer to drain. 2. Cut and open the stomach. Remove the inwards. Wash and clean the insidesthoroughly. Set aside. 3. In a bowl, mix two cups of water to make the brine solution. For [...]