The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book
by Carla Emery
Category: Agriculture

An enormous undertaking, this 900-page volume embraces every facet of country living, from raising livestock to canning vegetables. Over 300,000 copies of previous editions have been sold and author Carla Emery continues to draw new fans to her book. This revised and expanded edition is packed with information on growing, harvesting, processing, preserving, and cooking everything for vegetables and grains to dairy animals, pigs, and even earthworms! A wealth of other topics include enriching soil, baking bread, making soap, tanning hides, wood stove cooking, even delivering a baby. No book can match An Encyclopedia of Country Living for its thoroughness and reliability.