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Plain and happy living : Amish recipes and remedies / by Emma Byler (Jonas Em).
LIBRA TX715 .B9882 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byler, Emma, 1921-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amish cooking.
- Amish--Ohio--Social life and customs.
- Amish.
- Traditional medicine--Ohio--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Traditional medicine.
- Manners and customs.
- Ohio.
- Penn Provenance:
- Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Plain & happy living.
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, Ohio : Goosefoot Acres Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- Byler, an Old Order Amish from Middlefield, Ohio, offers an autobiographical medicine diary and recipe book, that's been over 50 years in the making. Here are recipes for general tonics, poultices, plasters, and remedies for specific ills, instructions for making soap, furniture polish, glue, and varnish remover, plus recipes for everything from cherry pie to Rivvel Soup. Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Cover title: Plain & happy living.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.
- ISBN:
- 1879863707 :
- 1879863715
- Online:
- Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page
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