Keeping Hearth and Home in Old California A Practical Primer for Daily Living

Keeping Hearth & Home in Old California is a "how-to" book, but not for you. It's the book your great-great-grandmother grabbed off the shelf whenever the horse was constipated, when she was entertaining a person of high degree, or when she required directions for canning okra. The advice and voice are quaint now, and sometimes uproariously funny. But it tells the story of daily life in a time when the country was binding its wounds from the Civil War--a time before electricity, telephones, cars, and shopping malls.// Keeping Hearth & Home in Old California is more than a great cover to cover read. It's a book you can turn to any page and be totally amused and enchanted, not to mention edified. You'll learn how to rid your mattress of bedbugs, how to remove stains from your Irish linen, and how to substitute squirrels for chicken in your stew.// So welcome to the family household in Old California. Come indoors, pull up a fireside rocker, and listen to your Great-Great-Grandparents tell how they walked these same floorboards, sat in that very chair, and lived under this same roof. Most of all, discover how the everyday rituals of a bustling nineteenth-century home can bring history to life more vividly than ever.// With Keeping Hearth & Home in Old California on your coffee table, the wolf will never dare venture across the threshold, and your household will carry on flawlessly--like a well-oiled wagon wheel.Padgett, Carol is the author of 'Keeping Hearth and Home in Old California A Practical Primer for Daily Living' with ISBN 9780897324106 and ISBN 0897324102.