The Lost Skills of the Old Days

How did folks feed a family with no refrigerator, no grocery store, and no power? This book brings back the old skills, in big print and plain language: drying meat without refrigeration, pemmican, salt curing and brining, building and using a smokehouse, rendering lard and tallow, hardtack and sourdough, the root cellar, fermenting in a crock, keeping eggs, making soap from ashes and fat, dipping candles, fire from scratch, finding and keeping water, cattails, the old medicine shelf, and saving your own seed. Every chapter includes a 'Keeping It Safe Today' section with what modern food safety adds to the old ways. 84 pages, 6x9, large type. By Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End.