Review: Recipes are only as good as having the ingredients in stock, in readiness.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2013
If you use the book for preparedness, then sit down with a notebook and write down a list of the ingredients with amounts for each ingredient that you need to make each dish. As you do, at the same time, keep a list of dishes that you have decided to make. Add up the ingredients from your ingredients list to make a master shopping list and head to the store. Part of making this work is taking action.  If the author wanted to make the book more useable, the author could have had an Appendix in the back of the book. The appendix would contain the ingredients and amounts per recipe ONLY so that the shopping list would have been easier to add up!Also, 2 recipes call for "Carolina Rice" recipe- "Hopping John" (2nd paragraph under the chapter heading -RICE AND BEANS, and "Carolina Rice Muffins", but there is NO "Carolina Rice" recipe in the cookbook!  The "Carolina Rice Muffins" doesn't have Carolina Rice in the ingredients, only cooked rice.  There is a "Durham Rice" recipe.  Are Durham and Carolina Rice recipes interchangeable?Finally, this is a good book for those who'd like to play pioneers.  Some of the recipes are right out of the recipes of historic wagon train going west.  I like it for the historical aspect. I give it Three stars because when a person adds in vegetable gardening, a person could have a lot more variety of foods to put on the menu.