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In Grandmother's Day: A Legacy of Recipes, Remedies and Country Wisdom from 100 Years Ago
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In Grandmother's Day: A Legacy of Recipes, Remedies and Country Wisdom from 100 Years Ago

Author(s): Cross, Jean
Binding: Hardcover
Volume Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: Yes
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Protection: N/A
Edition: 1st Edition
Signature: None
Language: English
Publisher Name: Prentice-Hall
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Place: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA
ISBN: 9780134536965
Book ID: 012894
Catalogue(s): Food, Cooking and Household Management ◇ Self Help, Reflection and Spiritual

416pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends. Top text block edge starting to tan. Green endpapers. Page margins tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage.

Contains hundreds of actual recipes and remedies from the 1880s that give a close-up look at the hardy ways of our pioneering ancestors. Examines how they stayed well without the benefits of antibiotics and other wonders of twentieth century medicine, and how they kept their clothes, their homes, and themselves clean.

Keywords:
Folk stories Alternative Remedies Recipes Food Cooking

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