This is the book that is mentioned on the NEW "grandpappy.org" hard times survival website. Simple delicious recipes that produce delightful results using the minimum number of common ordinary ingredients. This is a special cookbook that was created for families who are experiencing hard times. When a family is trying to survive during hard times then that family usually has extremely meager financial resources and they cannot afford all the different foods they once had the privilege to consume during normal times. The family has to stretch its food dollar to the limit and they must frequently supplement their weekly menus with wild edible plants and whatever wild game meat they can acquire. This is a cookbook for families in the above situation. It contains a wide assortment of simple recipes that only require the absolute minimum number of ingredients to produce exceptionally delightful and tasty meals. It contains a pleasant variety of delicious recipes for white rice, flour, cornmeal, and canned meats. It also explains how to make your own homemade mayonnaise, sour cream, baking powder, tomato sauce, sugar, and peanut butter. This cookbook also contains my homemade beer recipe and my homemade wine recipe. My homemade wine recipe will allow you to make a delightful wine without any special chemicals or wine yeast. This is a Cookbook for Hard Times when you may have to provide almost everything your family eats.
At least one of your ancestors was probably a fantastic cook. This cookbook can help you learn the cooking secrets your ancestors had memorized. And as you practice the cooking skills they took for granted then you will gradually become a gourmet cook. This cookbook assumes you know very little, or maybe nothing, about how to prepare delicious food using basic ingredients, such as flour, baking soda, meat, vegetables, fruit, butter, eggs, herbs, and spices. The first 6 chapters contain the really important information you need to know so you can begin your gourmet cooking adventure. The next 26 chapters contain an impressive collection of more than 200 gourmet recipes that have very detailed instructions for each step in the food preparation process. The recipes do not assume that you already know how to cook, or that you know why some things should be done, or why other things should not be done. The recipes in this cookbook clearly explain the reasons why the instructions should be followed in order to produce a culinary miracle. In a very short time you can become a master chef. And after your family and friends taste some of your culinary miracles then they will beg you to share your recipes with them and to please, please, please teach them how to cook the way you do. The reason a gourmet cook is so successful is because he or she normally prepares meals that accomplish all of the following objectives at the same time: 1. The food has an enticing aroma. 2. The food has a very desirable appearance. 3. The food has a delightful pleasant taste. 4. The food satisfies the person's hunger for at least a few hours. 5. The food can be easily and quickly digested. 6. The vitamins and nutrients in the food have been preserved and they can be easily absorbed into the body. 7. The food facilitates the long-term health of the person who eats it. All gourmet cooks gradually modify their recipes as they gain experience and as they learn new things. The best way to become a great gourmet cook is to start with a great recipe. If you start with an average recipe, or with a good recipe, then it will take more of your time, and more of your money invested in ingredients, in order to gradually convert that recipe into something you can take pride in. There is nothing wrong with this approach if you have the patience, and the time, and the money to invest in gradually and slowing enhancing your cooking skills and your favorite recipes. On the other hand, if you start with a superior recipe, then you may discover that you like the recipe exactly the way it is. Or you may decide to gradually make small changes to the recipe to see if those changes impact the results in a favorable or unfavorable manner. By starting very close to your personal finish line, you will be able to arrive there quicker while spending less money. The recipes in this gourmet cookbook are superior recipes. However, no recipe anywhere in this cookbook will please everyone because different people have different taste preferences, and there is nothing unusual about that. Some of the recipes in this cookbook only require two or three ingredients. However, this cookbook also includes recipes that require ten or more ingredients. Some of the recipes are very simple and they can be completed in 5 minute or less. However, some of the recipes require several hours to complete. This cookbook includes recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There are chapters on appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, main dishes, vegetables, desserts, and international cuisine. Each recipe chapter contains between 3 to 29 different recipes, or an average of about 9 recipes per chapter. In conclusion, this cookbook begins by carefully explaining "How to Become a Gourmet Cook," and then this cookbook provides more than 200 gourmet recipes for you to pick from so you can begin your gourmet cooking adventure.
Step up your barbeque game. Pitmaster is the definitive guide to becoming a barbecue aficionado and top-shelf cook from renowned chefs Andy Husbands and Chris Hart. Barbecue is more than a great way to cook a tasty dinner. For a true pitmaster, barbecue is a way of life. Whether you're new to the grill or a seasoned vet, Pitmaster is here to show you what it takes to truly put your barbeque game on point. Recipes begin with basics, like cooking Memphis-style ribs, and expand to smoking whole hogs North Carolina style. There is no single path to becoming a pitmaster. Barbecue lovers are equally inspired by restaurants with a commitment to regional traditions, competition barbecue champions, families with a multi-generational tradition of roasting whole hogs, and even amateur backyard fanatics. This definitive collection of barbecue expertise will leave you in no doubt why expert chefs and backyard cooks alike eat, live, and breathe barbecue. Pitmaster features: Specific tips and techniques for proper smoker operation—the cornerstone of all successful barbecue recipes—using Weber, Offset, Kamado, and other classic smoker styles A backyard cooking chapter offering the basics of becoming a successful barbecue cook Spotlights on specific regional barbecue styles, such as Texas, Kansas City, and the Carolinas, which set the stage for more advanced barbecue techniques and recipes, such as Butterfly Pork Butt Burnt Ends and Central Texas Beef Ribs An exploration of new styles of barbecue developing in the North Chris and Andy’s secret competition barbecue recipes that have won them hundreds of awards Regional side dishes, cocktails, and simple desserts A guest pitmaster in each chapter who is an expert in their given region or style of barbecue cooking. Guest pitmasters include: Steve Raichlen (author and host of Project Smoke on PBS), Jake Jacobs, Sam Jones (Skylight Inn and Sam Jones Barbecue), Elizabeth Karmel (Carolina Cue To Go), Tuffy Stone (Q Barbecue), Rod Gray (eat bbq), John Lewis (Lewis Barbecue), Jamie Geer (owner of Jambo Pits) and Billy Durney (Hometown Bar-B-Que)
This is the book that is mentioned on the NEW "grandpappy.org" hard times survival website. This book contains complete and detailed instructions on how to skin and butcher a wild animal. It also describes the process of creating delicious smoked meat that has a normal shelf life of approximately one year. The meat can be smoked over a normal fire but instructions and illustrations are also included on how to build a simple efficient smokehouse. You will then be guided through the entire hide tanning process, step by step. Next you will be shown how to take specific measurements at exact locations on the human body so you can create your own clothing patterns at home. You will then be shown how to combine your own homemade clothing patterns with your own tanned animal hides so that you can make your own high quality underwear, shirts, pants, skirts, dresses, jackets, ponchos, caps, and moccasins. This book also contains instructions on how to make ropes, whips, slings, and arrows. Also included are detailed instructions on how to make parchment, homemade ink, and a feather pen. In summary, this book will show you how to use almost every part of a wild game animal so that nothing of any real practical value is wasted. If you are a hunter and you do not currently save and process the hides of the wild game animals that your family eats, then this book will clearly explain how to accomplish this task so that you can begin to strategically use a part of the animals that you have been throwing away. If you are currently experiencing hard times and you are eating a lot of wild game meat, then this book will explain how to convert the hides of those animals into soft smooth buckskins that can be used to make high quality clothing for your family that will last for many, many years. In my opinion, every one of the practical skills that are described in this book could be of timeless value to you and to your descendants.
A few years ago, a magazine sponsored a contest for the comment most likely to end a conversation. The winning entry? "I teach English grammar." Just throw that line out at a party; everyone around you will clam up or start saying "whom." Why does grammar make everyone so nervous? Probably because English teachers, for decades – no, for centuries – have been making a big deal out of grammar in classrooms, diagramming sentences and drilling the parts of speech, clauses, and verbals into students until they beg for mercy. Happily, you don't have to learn all those technical terms of English grammar – and you certainly don't have to diagram sentences – in order to speak and write correct English. So rest assured – English Grammar For Dummies will probably never make your English teacher's top-ten list of must-read books, because you won't have to diagram a single sentence. What you will discover are fun and easy strategies that can help you when you're faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between "I" and "me," "had gone" and "went," and "who" and "whom." With English Grammar For Dummies, you won't have to memorize a long list of meaningless rules (well, maybe a couple in the punctuation chapter!), because when you understand the reason for a particular word choice, you'll pick the correct word automatically. English Grammar For Dummies covers many other topics as well, such as the following: Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs – oh my! Preposition propositions and pronoun pronouncements Punctuation: The lowdown on periods, commas, colons, and all those other squiggly marks Possession: It's nine-tenths of grammatical law Avoiding those double negative vibes How to spice up really boring sentences (like this one) Top Ten lists on improving your proofreading skills and ways to learn better grammar Just think how improving your speaking and writing skills will help you in everyday situations, such as writing a paper for school, giving a presentation to your company's big wigs, or communicating effectively with your family. You will not only gain the confidence in knowing you're speaking or writing well, but you'll also make a good impression on those around you!
This is an age of great calamities. War and revolution, famine and pestilence, are again rampant on this planet, and they still exact their deadly toll from suffering humanity. Calamities influence every moment of our existence: our mentality and behavior, our social life and cultural processes. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. In this classic volume, Sorokin attempts to account for the effects these calamities exert on the mental processes, behavior, social organization, and cultural life of the population involved. In what way do famine and pestilence, war and revolution tend to modify our mind and conduct, our social organization and cultural life? To what extent do they succeed in this, and when and why do they prove less effective? What are the causes of these calamities, and what are the ways out? In dealing with these problems Sorokin tries to give a detailed description of the typical effects of famine and pestilence, war and revolution, such as have repeatedly occurred in all major catastrophes of this kind. To use academic language, he attempts to formulate the principal uniformities regularly manifested during such calamities. This book is a forgotten masterpiece of explanation and prediction. It opened new fields of study and broadened the scope of existing specialties.
This book contains practical advice on how to survive an economic depression or a natural or manmade disaster that disrupts commerce. It contains alternatives for you to consider so you can make the best possible choices for the comfort and survival of your family during hard times.This book will provide you with a variety of options to consider in the areas of water and food procurement, gardening options, personal hygiene alternatives, practical battery operated electronic equipment, a summary of the relevant issues related to firearm selection, how to make your own ammunition at home, a common sense discussion of the pros and cons of a variety of different long-term survival strategies, some spiritual encouragement, and some recommendations for your family's continued education and entertainment.
