Combination cookbook and "how-to-do-it" guide, this book provides a grass roots picture of home life in 1860s America. Ways to preserve food, care for crops and animals, make straw hats and squirrel-skin shoes, and cure everything from cancer to small pox to ingrown toenails. Half of the nearly six hundred entries -- all published in journals or newspapers during the Civil War -- relate to the preparation and cooking of food, from snow corn cakes and cracker pie to walnut catsup and secession rice bread. Also included is advice on measuring land, estimating hay, and collecting opium for home use.

Publisher: Summerhouse Pr (January 1, 1997)
Language: English
Paperback: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 188771409X
ISBN-13: 978-1887714099
Item Weight: 264 grams
Dimensions: 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 centimeters
Condition: Very good used condition, with a couple of scuff marks on the cover and a personal message on the first page.