Forgotten ways for modern days : kitchen cures and household lore for a natural home and garden / Rachelle Blondel ; photography by Catherine Gratwicke.
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TextPublisher: New York : Tarcher Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First American editionDescription: 143 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143110583; 0143110586Subject(s): Home economics | Organic living | Home economics -- MiscellaneaDDC classification: 640.41 Subject: Forgotten Ways for Modern Days draws on the wisdom of the homemakers, gardeners, crafters and kitchen alchemists of the past who kept homes clean, gardens in order and hands busy using natural products and items found close to hand, either around the house or in the garden. Ingredients from kitchen cupboards, picked from the veg patch or foraged from hedgerows were used to clean clothes, cure a chesty cough and freshen the skin, whilst scraps of fabric were recycled in endless useful ways.
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Forgotten Ways for Modern Days draws on the wisdom of the homemakers, gardeners, crafters and kitchen alchemists of the past who kept homes clean, gardens in order and hands busy using natural products and items found close to hand, either around the house or in the garden. Ingredients from kitchen cupboards, picked from the veg patch or foraged from hedgerows were used to clean clothes, cure a chesty cough and freshen the skin, whilst scraps of fabric were recycled in endless useful ways.
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