Receipts Books

I don't know of any other book that covers the approaches to healing in such an insightful way. I had numerous ahh haa moments. Susan's writings on specific plants also really give one the sense that they are living energies deserving of respect.

I absolutely love this book! Susuns way of teaching is so matter of fact and not so technical that we can understand, and gives you this urge to just try.
Gabby

she is my herbal guru. very informative and she has a great website. excedllent book

Anyone interested in herbalism in any way needs to read this book. Susun is most definately a grandmother of herbalism to the next generations that follow the herbal ways.
Susun is delightful in her writing and is also very public about everything she writes about. Truly teaching us about the herbs themselves and how to apply them.

I got a bit confused on her way of describing dandelion in her french accent writing about the plant, but now that I have been exposed to a french teacher, I am more comfortable with understanding this section of the book and should re read it.

But that is Susun's playful style and how the plants are in relation to her.

If you practice herbalism in any degree, this is a must have book.

Wise Woman Herbal: Healing Wise looks at health and healing from a completely different perspective than any other resource I've ever consulted. Instead of looking at illness as something needing medication (as in western scientific medicine) or as the result of some sort of bodily imbalance (as in traditional eastern medicine), this book looks at illness as an opportunity.

At first, I have to admit that this concept sounded really strange to me. What sort of opportunity is suffering from Chronic Fatigue or having to deal with the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis? However, as I continued through the thorough and easy to understand explanations of the wise woman tradition, I began to understand more about the principles behind optimum nourishment.

Basically, this concept requires that we learn to take care of, accept, learn from and love ourselves at every point in our life process. To do so, brings about change and further opportunities to nourish our being. Thus, if we have an illness in the traditional sense, then we need to take the opportunity to learn about ourselves and fully nurture our being before we can ever hope to release the seemingly negatives aspects of the situation.

Wise Woman Herbal: Healing Wise has me intrigued with the wise woman tradition. I find the concept of a spiral healing pattern (as opposed to the linear pattern of western medicine and the circular pattern of traditional eastern medicine) fascinating. I also like that this book gave me a distinctly different way to think about my health. I am extremely eager to learn more about this tradition.

This is THE VERY BEST Clay Pot cookbook out there. The recipes always make up exactly as the authors' say. Don't waste your time on the newer books they just don't hold a candle to this one.

I gave the book 5 stars because that is what most people do and the book probably deserves 5 stars. I may never use the book because nowhere was it mentioned that it was only for unglazed pots. My pot has glazed bottom, so now I must search for a book on using glazed pots. I had hoped for information for adapting recipes for microwave, but there was none.

I recently ordered this book and have tried three recipes in one week. I do not exaggerate when I say this is some of the best food I have ever tasted. The book warns to use only a non-glazed cooker, but I have a Schlemmertopf, which is glazed, and the recipes cook perfectly. Five Stars.

I have my grandmother's copy and I love it, too. I have MANY cookbooks and experiment with many Asian cuisines that suggest clay pot dishes. This cookbook is clear and simple to use but amazingly, has many original recipes I've seen nowhere else that hold up to the test of time in terms of flavor, health and variety. This is not fatty, add a can of soup to everything, midwestern cooking from the 1970's. These recipes come from a fresh philosophy coming out of California (San Francisco?) at the time and the principles still hold true. The back cover sums up for who: Gourmet cooks, organic cooks, low-fat cooks, experimental cooks, amateur cooks! My favorite recipes are the Monterrey Jack Rabbit, Beggar's Chicken, Garden Fresh Chicken Breast and the Herb Oatmeal Bread. The bread I personally found worked better in a clay bread pan (like from Pampered Chef) than a round clay pot. The Rabbit dish includes fresh herbs, brandy, dark beer, shallots, mushrooms and a touch of jack cheese. The bread recipe is the favorite among my very picky, all organic, vegetarian friends. The author's description was dead on: This unusual loaf is worth every second at the 3 1/2 hours it takes from start to finish. Be sure you make enough of it as it will take on a cookie-like disappearing act. (True). Be careful about the ingredients, especially the oatmeal; get a good one like John McCann's from Ireland, and spurn the instant. This was the first bread recipe I ever made from scratch! 6 herbs, pine nuts, sour cream & honey. Yum!

This book is often listed as one of the best on clay cooking even though an old book.
Gets credit for delicious recipes.

Love it!!! I have quite a few, but this is probobly my favorite healing book. It dosent include as many disorders as some bigger books, but, I go back to this book so often, and can apply some of the knowledge to other ailments when using common sense. I enjoy how the author writes; easy to understand; also makes me feel confident to prepare many of these remedies. Enjoy.

"Gentle Healing for Baby and Child" by Andrea Candee is a winner! Andrea is an experienced herbalist, and mom as well, and this book is truly a treasure. It is easy to read and full of time tested, drug and chemical free remedies for just about any kind of ailment common to childhood. The author is careful to give the reader a criteria for judging when medical help is necessary, but this book can save countless trips to the doctor's office, as well as many nasty side effects of conventional treatments and over the counter drugs. Andrea also places a lot of emphasis on the emotional aspect of wellness, which I very much appreciate. For instance, she recommends Bach flower essences and chamomile tea for soothing troubled nerves that accompany injury or illness. She has also had much success in using imaginative visualizations to aid the body in it's healing ability. Even minor trauma, such as the sight of blood on a cut, is given consideration- Andrea suggests using a red wash cloth to clean the wound, so it doesn't show up. The perfect combination of wisdom and love!

I just recieved my copy today. I was hooked as soon as I saw Dr. Christopher mentioned. My middle child has bad eczema and I hope the suggestions in here help her. It's very easy reading and very informative. If your child has a persistent problem this book should help.

I deffantley recommend this book to parents who do not want to treat their kids with perscibed and non-prescribed drugs. It's a must have for those with kids.

Written by a Master Herbalist who has worked with physicians and in her own private practice for the past 25 years, Gentle Healing for Baby and Child is the definitive guide for parents looking for an alternative to common treatments for everyday problems. In an accessible format, this guide includes solutions to ailments that occur both inside and outside the body. Got acne? Try an herbal detoxification, an herbal steam, or some Herbal Zinc Zapper. The Zapper recipe contains a mixture of zinc oxide, peppermint, and comfrey. Got a stressed out teen? Dose him with some Honegar - a mixture of honey and vinegar - to restore his chemical balance. In this book, the authors explain that the "floral nectars that comprise honey contain B vitamins and minerals which are calming to the nervous system." While you've got the honey jar out, don't forget to layer it over your little one's skinned knee before applying a bandage. Honey contains natural "anti-microbial properties."

Also included are sections that address subjects such as "Healing Imagery," as well as instructions for dosing herbs, where to find a local natural health practitioner, how to deal with toxicity, and even testing for food reactions. Herbalist Candee has created a helpful, easy to use guide to natural healing for parents. --Reviewed by Michelle Smith

Charleston Receipts is a classic! I received my own copy as a wedding shower gift...my mom wrote notes next to all of her favorite recipes and those of her mother. Shrimp Paste is a Charleston classic. Breakfast shrimp - great with grits! The Chicken Tetrazzini freezes well. New Year's Day wouldn't be complete without Hopping John. In addition, the Gullah verses (and their translations) and the sketches, watercolors and prints of the Lowcountry are a treat to look at while your recipes are cooking.

A truly great cookbook that is as much fun to read as it is to cook with. The way Southern cooking was done for so many generations. There isn't another cookbook available that has these fabulous recipes that have been handed down through family for so many generations. Don't hesitate to try the Breakfast Shrimp (better known today as Shrimp and Grits). You will love this book!!

Anytime you can find a cookbook that has been reprinted as many times as this one, you know that you have found something special. As diverse as the city itself, CHARLESTON RECEIPTS has a unique blend of regional recipes, kitchen hints and ideas, and practical shortcuts. The offerings range from the everyday (Turkey Tetrazzini) to the sublime (Hampton Polonaise...a luscious cake from 1865).This cookbook has been handed down from one good cook to another since 1950, and with good reason. It is well suited for the modern cook as well as the kitchen veteran.

This book if so filled with wonderful southern style recipes. The fact that this book has been around for 50 years and is still a great seller- testifies for itself!

This is an excellent source for information on life on the Confederate home front from 1861-1865. If you know how to look at it, the information that you can derive from it is vast and useful. My main nit-picks are that often times the many newspapers that the book attributes each of the articles in many cases do not list the city of issue. Or it will list them perhaps in the very first entry for that paper and unless you've made a written list, it's easy to forget where it came from. Very important when trying to determine regional variations. But that is a minor issue and should not by any means discourage one from getting this book.

This compilation of contemporary Civil War advice for home and farm is an excellent source of information on how the South "made do" during those hard times.

While Mary Elizabeth Massey's "Ersatz in the Confederacy," republished in the last few years by the University of South Carolina Press, is a worthwhile history of home life during those times, "The Confederate Housewife" goes further by quoting the exact recipes and nuggets of advice that appeared in newspapers and periodicals like "Field and Fireside," "Southern Cultivator" and "Clarke's Confederate Household Almanac."

Reading these pages is like going back in time, when advice is needed to restore tainted meat ("take it out of the pickle. Wash so as to cleanse it of the offensive pickle . . . As you re-pack your pieces, it would be well to rub each piece with salt."), get rid of mosquitoes ("put a couple of generous pieces of beef on plates near your bed at night, and you will sleep untroubled by these pests.") or dealing with bloated cattle ("a dose of thoroughwort with a little tansey will afford immediately relief.")

If nothing else, it will make you grateful for indoor plumbing, air conditioning and refrigerators.

You don't know how good you have it until you read about how bad things can get. Boy those Civil War belles had to work from sunrise to sunset just to get a couple of potatoes on the table. This book was really fascinating and puts the War into real perspective in a way that no other book has done. A wonderful recipe book too!.

You don't know how good you have it until you read about how bad things can get. Boy those Civil War belles had to work from sunrise to sunset just to get a couple of potatoes on the table. This book was really fascinating and puts the War into real perspective in a way that no other book has done. A wonderful recipe book too!.

Every household must have this book, ortodox medicine is dangerous an full of lies,get healthy get this book.

I can't begin to tell you how much I love this book.

1.Its easy to follow!
2.Color photos of each herb
3.A directory of ailments and detailed solutions!!

I plan to buy more of her books soon!!

My mom has one, my sister has one ,both my grandmothers have one, my aunts have one...we all have one and we swear by them! It contains detailed information and pictures of each herb, what it's good for, how to prepare it and different preparations for the same herb for different purposes such as teas and oils etc. The author who is German also shares amusing anekdotes about people and their illnesses that she has healed with herbs described in the book. This is truly one of the best herbal remedy-books I have seen. Very informative and extremely useful.

Speaking of my past medical history, I know these herbal remedies heal. I was diagnosed with an incurable disease of the bladder named "Interstitial Cystitis" and went to a good urologist for many years for treatment.By coincidence, my mother found this herbal book in German and told me there would be a cure in herbal science possible. My Godmother from Germany bought a tea from this book called:" Small flowered Willowrose" - I drank this tea for many months to come and I am cured because of it. I am a true believer in this and recommend this book to everyone out there who wants to get healed in a natural way without chemicals.

This is the best book you can get for all the formulas you need for optics. Great for studying for board test. I used it for the N.C. board test and it was a life saver. Well worth the price.

One of the best opticianary books on the market. I used the previous edition to teach Ophthalmic Optics and found this book to be very student friendly. Students: if this is not a required text get it anyway as a part of your permanent reference library

Ed
FNAO FOAA ABOC NCLC

This is the best! What a great review. I used it to get ready for my optician's test very helpful.

This is simply the best, most complete review book on optics I have ever seen. This was the only text I used to review for the optics portion of the national boards and I ended up scoring in the 90 percentile!!!!!!! Simply a must for any Optom or Ophthalmology student reviewing for boards. Far better than the review book provided in the AAO BCSC series. Very easy to read, concise information, review problems at the end of each chapter- just a great text!

How do you make Wahoo beer or ginger pop? How do you test gold or silver? How can you remove a ring from a swollen finger? What is the best way to wash a white dog? How can you detect counterfeit money?
For Americana buffs, this re-issue of a century-old encyclopedia with over 6400 receipts and processes is a revealing and unique insight into the do-it-yourself methods of yesteryear. Its purpose was to give "thorough information in plain language applicable to almost every possible industrial and domestic requirement" and, leafing through these pages, it's quite obvious that the purpose was carried out. Americans in the 1870s who had to be mostly self-sufficient in their daily existence must have found this volume indispensable.
There is information on such miscellaneous subjects as how to test mushrooms, how to test the purity of alcohol, how to deodorize putrid whale oil, and how to make candles. There are instructions for dissolving bones for manure, preserving leather, making soap, perfume and fireworks. You can learn how to make imitation French brandy or imitation Bourbon, how to see under water, how to mount small insects under a microscope, how to remove stains from black crape or mourning dresses, and how to polish alabaster.
Perusing these pages will afford hours of pleasure to old and young alike, as either a nostalgic look into another era or as sort of a "Whole Earth" catalog of the 1870s.

Leicester and Harriet Handsfield moved from New York City to a pre-Revolutionary War home in northwestern Connecticut in 1972. In the course of doing some refinishing they wanted to know how to milk paint, often used as a coating on furniture. A copy of Dick's Encyclopedia that had belonged to Leicester's grandfather was unearthed and consulted. The Handsfields not only learned all about milk paint, but became so engrossed in the book they spent hours poring over it. They are confident that others will find it good reading.

this contains great listings for how to do: dyeing, soapmaking, alcohols, tanning leather, cleaning, making patent medicines and damn near everything else in between. has engraved illustrations and diagrams for some things. very detailed index and easy to read format. caution: some of the chemicals listed are poisonous and to undertake anything in this book should be done with utmost care.

And I found it here at Amazon.com -- There isn't a better book for running away from the world and starting your own cult in the middle of the woods!

I have an ancient copy of this book handed down from my great-great grandmother. My copy is dog-earred and so worn the cover cannot be deciphered, but I've always loved thumbing through to find remedies for various complaints. In addition, Dr. Chase knows when to plant crops, how to care for farm animals, how to make basic household conveniences such as soap, baskets, spinning, weaving, churning butter...you name it, he has it in this book. Some of the remedies for illnesses might seem like they're from the Inquisition, but even simple poultices can be used today with great results. I wouldn't recommend dosing your child with kreosote, but amid the obvious bad advice are gems to be used in today's world. This copy of the book is much easier to read than my over 100 years-old copy, but the language is quaint and the book is an entertaining piece of Americana.

Dr. Chase was a traveling physician who compiled this book of "recipes and information for everybody" including a wide array of information and home remedies for families. At the time it was published, individual receipes to cure a sick horse or sick child were quite expensive. Dr. Chase's book of 800 recipes for health remedies, drinks, livestock cures, etc. was a bargain and a mainstay in households across the continent.

Sections include:
Merchant and Grocer Department
Saloon Department
Medical Department
Tanner,Shoe, & Harness Maker Department
Painter Department
Blacksmith Department
Tinner Department
Gunsmith Department
Jeweler Department
Farrier Department
Cabinet-maker Department
Barber Department
Baker/Cooking Department
Domestic Department
Miscellaneous Department

The information included is wildly varied and fascinating! Dr. Chase even advocates humane treatment of animals (includes illustrations for saving injured horses), instructs young people in how they can be successful, etc. etc. etc.

Just a wonderful book of frontier/19th century wisdom! I have the 38th edition, which was published in 1866.

I got this book on the recommendation of a friend. I love it! It has many of the plants that grow naturally in my own back yard and surrounding area as "weeds". I tried an "infusion" of a gumweed to help with my nightly chest heaviness which leads to horrible coughing. It worked wonderfully! No heaviness or coughing at all, I did not need the inhaler which has been my usually nightly ritual. The information is easy to read and very simplified. I have many herb and natural remedy books, but this one was concise and easy to use. It is very useful for someone wanting to get a remedy from the back yard and fix the problem, rather than going to the health food store and pay an "arm and a leg" for a bottle of something that gets used once or twice and sits on the shelf until you finally just throw it away. This will be a book that we use often.

This is a full-color herbal medicine book which details the complete identification, harvesting and use of 50 common remedies. It includes the medical description (emetic, antibiotic antitussive etc.) as well as the exact manner in which to prepare the herb as medication (tea amounts, preparation of ointments etc.) as well as an emergency usage guide. Harvesting is exact down to the best time of day to pick the herb. As an R.N., I have used a condensed guide to "shepherd" our five children as well as my husband through ailments as common as the common cold and as difficult as Hepatitis B. This book, along with Reader's Digest MAGIC AND MEDICINE OF PLANTS, and with my husband & my background as nurses (and the grace of the good Lord) has made visits to the doctor an almost non-existent item in our busy lives.