How we test

Last updated September 27, 2026

Reviewed

Every recipe is checked by a person before it goes up: the ingredients and amounts, the steps, the cooking times, the cost, and food safety, including safe internal temperatures for meat, poultry and eggs.

Kitchen-tested

Recipes with the Kitchen-tested badge have been cooked in June's kitchen, start to finish, using the equipment listed on the page. The date of the test is recorded with the recipe.

June Hartwell is the pen name of Hearth & Penny's founder, who develops and cooks every Kitchen-tested recipe. June's family stories are written with AI assistance and checked by June for accuracy; names and places are changed.