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Our Own Book - A Victorian Guide to Life

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Homespun Cuisine, Health, Romance, Etiquette. Raising Children and Farm Animals This wonderful book is a reprint of "Our Own Book" first published in 1888.

Over 600 Victorian era food recipes including Boiled Bullock's Head, Economical Veal Soup, Beef Balls, Frizzled Beef, Knuckle of Veal, Brooklyn Cake, Good Girl's Cake, Railroad Cake, Isinglass Jelly, Gruel, Calf's Foot Jelly, Invalid Apple Pie, Hasty Pudding, Flannel Cakes, Queen Pudding, and Fried Mush.

Make your own barn paint, indelible ink, ginger beer, shaving soap, waterproof glue, cologne, violin varnish, and more.

How and when to take a bath. What to feed sheep. Answers for all of life's challenges as a Victorian person.

Paperback book 334 pages.

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Product Details
0615206794 / 9780615206790
Paperback / softback
24/04/2008
United States
332 pages, black & white illustrations
152 x 229 mm, 489 grams