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The Hands-On Home

A Seasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping

by Erica Strauss
Charity Burggraaf
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HOME ECONOMICS FOR THE ECO-CONSCIOUS: Learn how to create a homemade, fun, and sustainable lifestyle with this housekeeping guide full of time- and money-saving tips.

Includes 100+ recipes, plus seasonal guidance on cooking, cleaning, urban homesteading, and more!

From cooking, canning, and preserving to making your own nontoxic home and personal care products, author Erica Strauss offers instruction and inspiration for tackling at-home projects on your own. In this book, you will learn how to:
• Organize and stock your kitchen for easy meal preparation—and whip up simple but satisfying recipes the whole family will love.
• Use basic food preservation techniques—from water-bath canning to pressure canning—with a handy year-long food preservation calendar of what to put up when.
• Make the most of your preserved foods with delicious recipes organized by season.
• Create your own home care and personal care products—from Fizzy Bath Bombs and Refreshing Peppermint Foot Scrub to Nontoxic Laundry softener.
With less focus on consumerism and more on saving time and money, The Hands-On Home will help you create a home you love with simple resources and easy-to-learn skills.

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  • Release date

    September 29, 2015

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781570619922
      • File size: 102483 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781570619922
      • File size: 102483 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2015

      To gain control of her domestic life and live more sustainably, Strauss (a former chef-turned-urban homesteader and blogger at nwedible.com) turned her back on prepared foods and industrial products such as household cleaners and beauty items. The bulk of this book shares her recipes organized by season. In the vein of Alana Chernila's The Homemade Pantry and Kresha Faber's The DIY Pantry, 78 recipes are for food--to provide delicious meals or preserve a bounty to stock the pantry or freezer. Well-written instructions for processes such as lactofermentation and pressure canning (but not dehydrating) simulate having a savvy, understanding neighbor at your side. Additionally, almost 40 recipes for cleaners and personal care products are also included for those who haven't discovered some in craft books or read Mandy O'Brien and Dionna Ford's Homemade Cleaners. Strauss touches on general household management, too, with nonjudgmental suggestions for time management, laundry, tidying, and major cleaning projects. VERDICT This title enables an easy start down the path to a homemade, fun, environmentally responsible lifestyle. Home cooks will discover fresh recipes and adopt techniques the author shared from her professional kitchen experience.--Bonnie Poquette, Milwaukee

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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