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The Golden House Books
All four books
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Book 1 of 4
Grandmother’s PantryFood preserving without a refrigerator in a Latvian house around 1905: salting and smoking meat, hams in eight styles, over twenty kinds of sausage, vinegars and marinades, keeping eggs, apple and cowberry preserves, sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers and dried mushrooms. 186 numbered recipes, word for word.
97 pages€7.99Book 2 of 4
Old Country DrinksHome-made drinks from a 1905 Latvian household book: cider and pear wine, wines of elder, bilberry, currant, cherry and gooseberry, birch-sap wine, ginger beer, raspberry lemonade, kefir and kvass. 25 recipes word for word, plus the period's tables of calories and food composition.
34 pages€3.99Book 3 of 4
The Housekeeper’s KnowledgeHousekeeping before electricity and shop cleaners, from a 1905 Latvian house book: washing, bleaching and ironing linen, removing stains, boots, furs and hats, stoves and damp walls, baking rye bread, house plants, moths and bedbugs. 297 numbered tips using soap, ash, soda, vinegar and chalk.
120 pages€7.99Book 4 of 4
The Household Medicine ChestFolk home remedies as used around 1905, kept as a historical record: herbal teas, tinctures, salves and syrups, Kneipp-style compresses, wraps and baths, then remedies by complaint, from chapped skin and hoarseness to toothache and chilblains. 232 numbered entries, word for word; not medical advice.
139 pages€7.99