Household Discoveries and Mrs Curtis

Many of the answers newbies are seeking on food and other preps can be found in this 1908 book as updated in 1913. Looking for answers, look to the past first and then seek updates that make things easier in grid down.
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You can discover facts about
Heating - Lighting - refrigeration : turn of century style
Sanitation
Disease
Washing clothes and making soap
Toilets and Teeth
Preserving meats and veggies - very interesting
And a full from scratch cookbook

There are many passages we will find quaint such as the notion on p543 of my paper version that "bathrooms are no longer a novelty ... but to enjoy these in winter, requires almost of necessity a range or furnace"

Or offensive concepts such as the women's place is in the home, etc.

But to read this is to know that you can survive quite well grid down because this old knowledge hasn't been lost. Cooking basics, sanitation, medical, cleaning, clothing, and more are here as this book was designed according to the author as almost a silent motion picture of an economic home shown on screen going through a week in the life of a small town. The book considers a bath tub almost a necessity while also saying that to have a hot bath you can fill it with kettles from the kitchen.

So thanks to digitization of old books, you can download this book as a PDF and keep it on your iPad. Better yet, find and keep a hard copy.

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Household Discoveries and Mrs Curtis