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The Encyclopedia Of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition (1977)

by Carla Emery(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Sasquatch Books

review 1: I cannot beleive the amount of information this book contains! The author makes no pretenses. She doesn't claim to know everything. She bases her knowledge on her experiences, letters, & information gathered over the years from others. This massive book is many many years worth of information! It has been updated many times. I'm pretty sure she doesn't leave anything out from the older versions, explaining why the book gets larger and larger. One thing that I'm aware of being left out because she mentions it is raw egg recipes. She says she was requested to leave them out for food safety reasons. This was very disappointing to me. No Egg Nog, No Mayonnaise. :o( Anyone country living can usually trust that their backyard eggs are safe.Just about anything you can think of re... moregarding the "simple life" is noted in this book. She gives TONS of information for outside sources so you can further your knowledge in the vast areas. This books makes a fantastic starting point or reference point to whatever it is you are looking for more information on. Look it up in her book, learn the basics (or sometimes much more than the basics), & then use her references to guide you.From farm animals, to gardening, to canning, to flowers, to recipes, to you name it! It's here! Even giving birth alone! Outhouses, water issues...on and on it goes!This truly is a must have! You will find yourself picking it up often. It's like curling up to read the letter of a long distance friend...sort of!
review 2: The first page I turned to said, "How to take care of your dead". So I figure it has it all. This book has everything your Grandmother should have taught you! I love learning how to do things on my own like making pickles and soap, so I am enjoying it. Already I found out I have poison Hemlock all over the front yard of my newly purchased home/ 5 acres that I want to turn into a mini farm. This book might have just saved my life! less

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