GRANDMA’S WAYS FOR MODERN DAYS
Reviving traditional skills in cooking, gardening and household management 2nd edition Diana and Paul Peacock PRICE EXTENT BINDING FORMAT ISBN PUB DATE IMPRINT
£9.99 224 pages Paperback 210 x 170 mm 978-1-905862-61-0 24th June 2011 Spring Hill
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Self-sufficiency
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PREVIOUS EDITION TITLE GRANDMA’S WAYS FOR MODERN DAYS PREVIOUS EDITION ISBN 978-1-905862-35-1
HOW TO BOOKS LTD ‘The Mrs Beeton for our times...You will not only learn how to do nearly everything yourself but discover how easy it is to fit it all into your life.’ Family Interest Magazine
KEY POINTS • Price drop to £9.99 for this revised and updated second edition • Helps readers to revive the everyday traditional skills of their grandparents that have been forgotten in the age of convenience foods • This book is about learning and using those skills that made it possible for people to live a self-sufficient, low impact and highly satisfying life over the last hundred or so years, and applying them to today’s complex times • This book has a simple aim: to bring people and the means of life - be it baking bread or growing vegetables, brewing beer or preserving food - closer together PAUL AND DIANA PEACOCK practise self-sufficiency near Manchester. Paul Peacock writes for the Daily Mirror as Mr Digwell and appears on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time. He edits the Home Farmer Magazine with Diana and has written books on gardening, self-sufficiency, beekeeping, wild food and foraging, making cheese and sausages, and butchering. Diana is the author of several cookery books including Good Home Preserving and - with Paul - The Seasonal Cookbook. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I - AROUND THE HOUSE II - IN THE GARDEN III - FOOD AND COOKING
2009 978-1-905862-27-6
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2009 978-1-905862-28-3
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2010 978-1-905862-44-3
2010 978-1-905862-48-1
GRANDMA’S WAYS FOR MODERN DAYS PAUL & DIANA PEACOCK ISBN 978-1-90586235-1 FULL CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I - AROUND THE HOUSE 1. Budgeting 2. Make Better and Mend 3. Health and Beauty 4. Household Cleaners 5. Making Soap II - IN THE GARDEN 6. Grandma’s Garden 7. Growing Herbs 8. The Kitchen Garden 9. Growing Fruit 10. Keeping Hens 11. Keeping Bees 12. Keeping Ducks 13. Foraging from the Wild III - FOOD AND COOKING 14. Baking Bread 15. Making Butter 16. Making Cheese 17. Making Sausage and Bacon 18. Grandma’s Main Meals 19. Preserves of All Kinds 20. Toffee, Treats and Sweets 21. Drinks, Squashes and Cordials 22. Beer and Wine Reader reviews from the first edition: ‘I first found this book at my local library and liked it so much I had to buy it…full of helpful hints and useful information.’ ‘With lots of basic information that is normally skimmed over in other books of this kind, I found this one to be quite comprehensive, and extremely useful in my efforts to both simplify and economize my household. I have already saved more than the cost of the book, so I'm very happy!’ ‘This is the sort of book that is just handy to have around whether you are a seasoned household management expert or just a beginner! Lovely to look at and quite broad in its range of topics, a super book to have now when more and more of us are returning to older ways of doing things.’ REVIEWS ‘This is a book that will suit anyone wanting to love a greener life and save money along the way.’ Countryside Magazine ‘…a very down-to-earth-guide. The only way it could more user friendly was if the authors came round and did your garden and cooking for you.’ lovereading.co.uk
HOW TO BOOKS LTD Head Office Spring Hill House Spring Hill Road Begbroke, Oxford 0X5 1RX United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 1865 375794 F: +44 (0) 1865 379162 info@howtobooks.co.uk http://howtobooks.co.uk DISTRIBUTION Grantham Book Services Trent Road, Grantham Lincs NG31 7XQ T: 01476 541080 F: 01476 541061 orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk TRADE SALES Compass DSA Ltd T: 01628 559500 F: 01628 663876 sales@compass-dsa.co.uk
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