Our Own Book - A Victorian Guide to Life

By Diane Janowski

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 old 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 332 pages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615206794
• ISBN13: 9780615206790
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: New York History Review Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"