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Dropped $80 on a 1950s home canning guide at an estate sale. Worth it or dumb move?
Found this beat-up book called "The Complete Home Canning Manual" from 1953. Paid $80 because the cover had a cool illustration of tomatoes and jars. Got it home and half the pages talk about using lead-lined pots and sealing jars with wax. That stuff is dangerous now. But the other half has legit recipes for pickles and jams that I've never seen in modern books. Made a batch of watermelon rind pickles from it and they turned out amazing. Now I'm torn. Do I keep collecting these old guides for the weird recipes? Or is it just a waste of money when modern books have safer instructions? Has anyone else dealt with old how-to books that are half useful and half deadly?
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harper_owens14d ago
Keep a notebook and jot down the good recipes, then toss the book if the outdated info worries you. Watermelon rind pickles are worth eighty bucks alone if you ask me.
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paul_lane8014d ago
Buddy of mine found a 1940s cookbook with a killer pie recipe wedged between tips on handling raw milk.
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