The Home-Keeping Book (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Garland Brown

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330150740 ISBN 13 : 9781330150740

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Practical guidance for cooking, baking, and everyday home management. This non-fiction guide collects essential kitchen skills, thrifty strategies, and reliable recipes to help households run smoothly and save resources.

The book covers baking, sugar and flour substitutions, canning, meal planning, and basic kitchen science. It blends practical how-tos with era-specific advice on conserving food, using substitutes, and organizing a well‑run home.

• Clear, step-by-step cooking and baking instructions for a wide range of recipes


• Substitutions and budget-minded approaches to meals and ingredients


• Tips on home organization, storage, and safe handling of foods


• Recipes and methods that reflect practical food conservation and kitchen efficiency

Ideal for home cooks, students of home economics, and anyone seeking reliable guidance for a well-run kitchen.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Washington, A pril, 1918 Now Is the hour of our testing. Let us make it the hour of our victory victory over ourselves; victory over the enemy of freedom Home Card, 1918. The following restrictions are a military necessity: Cut down the consumption of wheat by at least one-half. Households keep within a weekly allowance for each person of one and a half pounds of flour and all other wheat products. Public eating places keep within the same allowance for every twenty-one meals served; not more than two ounces of wheat products, flour included, to be served to a guest at any one meal. Retail purchases of flour to be limited in quantity and to be accompanied by at least equal weight of other cereals. Bakers to keep within 70 per cent, of flour formerly used; three-quarter pound loaves to go as far as the pound loaf usually does. No wheat to be used in manufacturing for anything but food. Let all who can go without wheat. THE WHEAT SHORTAGE The wheat situation is the most serious in the food supply of the Allied World. Our harvest was less than estimated; needs of the Allies are greater than vere calculated; losses by sea and by battle have been heavier than were anticipated; less comes from the Argentine tht, nhad been hoped; tenser demands on shipping space restrict ships more than ever to the shortest haul and the tightest bulk. We have fallen behind in our program. Because corn and oats were so tardy in coming to market, we have not been able to ship as much as we should, we have eaten further into our stock of wrheat than we would. Corn cannot be shipped now. We have sent it as fast as we could and we will again. But during the next two months, the season of germination, it will not do to ship corn there is too much spoilage in shipment. There is no margin anywhere. The Allies have wheat to-day but their stocks are down to the danger point. We dare not let
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330150740
• ISBN 13: 9781330150740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 616
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