Combination cookbook and "how-to-do-it" guide; this receipt book provides for the first time a comprehensive; grass roots picture of what many Confederate housewives faces during those tumultuous years. Substitutes abound; as do 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 here -- all published in journals or newspapers during the Civil War -- relate to the preparation and cooking of food and encompass both substitutes and standard fare; everything 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. "Some of these recipes may seem strange by today's standards others horrific (cures for cancer that use turkey figs; sheep sorrel; and dock root). Still others are helpful even today." -- Civil War Times
#830699 in Books 1995-11-13 1995-11-13Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.70 x 2.16 x 7.23l; .40 #File Name: 185532590X48 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Too narrowly focused!By D. WilliamsThis is not a narrative of the battles; trials and triumphs experienced by Gen. George Washington's army in the latter phases of the American War of Independence. Rather; the book is very narrowly focused on the provision of uniforms to some of the various units that served under Washington in the Continental Army during this time period. Consequently; the text is extraordinarily dry; arcane; and very uninteresting to any but the most devoted student of material history. The research is sound; but unfortunately very spotty due to the fact that archival records are incomplete on this subject. The color plates are very nicely done. However; the accompanying descriptive text (usually a high point for Osprey books); like the rest of the book; offers nothing beyond an accounting of colors of uniforms. This work is definitely not in keeping with the otherwise high standard that Osprey has established for its books in this genre.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Louis A. DiazDitto0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Illustrations are super!By Carl DalBonInvaluable resource for researching uniforms of the period. Illustrations are super!
