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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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 Posted - Sep 11 2004 : 5:55:11 PM
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Just thought I'd share my new found treasure, which I picked up at my fav thrift store yesterday. It's a book, really more like an encloypedia, called "Stocking Up-How to Preserve the Foods You Grow, Naturally" - this is the 1977 edition published by Rodale Press. It is overflowing with information!! It includes many things I grew up doing, and some things that are new to me.
There are sections covering vegetables and fruits, with chapters like veges for vitamins, harvesting, freezing, canning, drying, underground storage, pickles and relishes, jams jellies and fruit butters, jucing and recipes... Then there's the Dairy section with chapters on freezing milk and cream, making butter, making hard and semihard cheeses, making soft cheeses, making yogurts, storing eggs, homemade ice cream and recipes... Then...the meat and fish section including chapters on storage of all types, dressing poultry, freezing, canning, and curing meats, preparing and storing fish and recipes, Then.. lastly, the section covering nuts, seeds and grains with chapters on harvesting each and storage and recipes.
It feels rather like sitting down with the grandmothers that I never got a chance to know.... to learn "the ways".... rather comforting.
Do any of you have such treasured books of information, too?
****Gardener, Stitcher, Spiritual Explorer and Appreciator of all Things Natural****
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb |
Edited by - Clare on Sep 11 2004 6:20:57 PM |
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LakesideQltr
Farmgirl in Training
25 Posts
Sheila
CA
USA
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Posted - Sep 12 2004 : 08:09:41 AM
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I have a good one - found it at a yard sale when first moving to the foothills. It's called "The How to Grow and Cook It Book of vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts" by Jacqueline Heriteau published in 1970 by Hawthorn Books. Verrrrry specific instruction for ground prep for planting thru the freezing, storing, preserving processes and grrrrrrrrrrrrreat recipes. What I love is there are charts of drawings for recognition of seedlings of vegies and herbs. (my markers have tended to get washed away with watering or stolen by birds or critters and I never quite know what I have or if I need to weed it out!) Glad you mentioned this cuz it made me pull the book out again and I had forgotten about it!
-Sheila
Life is what happens while you're making other plans - John Lennon |
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