117 plain-living cures. Four generations of quiet kitchen wisdom. Written down at last.
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These are real people with the book in their hands — ordinary mothers, fathers, daughters, grandmothers. The way they tell it is the way it is.
My grandma kept a notebook in her kitchen drawer with recipes like these. After she died nobody could find it. I've been looking for something like it for probably 15 years. This isn't her book but the onion honey syrup is the same one she made. I don't know how to explain that but it is.
Bought it for my wife. She loves it. One thing — some of the recipes need stuff you have to actually order online (dried mullein for the ear oil, our local store didn't have it) so plan ahead if you want to make this stuff. The book itself is well written. Reads like a story, not a textbook. My wife read the whole thing in two evenings.
Bought this because my mom used to do the salt sock thing for our ears when we were little and I never wrote down how she did it. She passed in 2019. The recipe is in here, almost the same. I cried a little. The rest of the book is bonus at this point but I've already used the plantain salve on my grandson twice.
Content is good and I'm using a few of the recipes already. The hand salve worked, my knuckles always crack in winter and they're better. Only knock is there's no pictures of the plants. If you don't already know what plantain looks like vs some other weed in your yard you'll have to google it. For the price I can't really complain though.
I'm 61. My daughter just had her first baby and I bought this thinking I'd send it to her. Started reading it that night and ended up buying her a second copy the next day because I wasn't ready to give mine up. The chapter on new mothers is the one I wish I'd had 30 years ago.