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Cottage Economy by William Cobbett
Cottage Economy by William Cobbett
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Cottage Economy by William Cobbett
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Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: December 01, 2017
Physical Info: 0.16" H x 11.02" L x 8.5" W (0.45 lbs) 78 pages
William Cobbett wrote Cottage Economy published in 1821, with a twofold aim. First, to promote his personal philosophy of self-sufficiency, which he viewed as the foundation of family happiness. And second, to instruct country laborers in the arts of brewing beer, making bread, keeping cows, pigs, bees, ewes, poultry, rabbits, and other matters. The book has enjoyed classic status ever since.Though over 180 years old, Cottage Economy has lost none of its relevance or inspiration for anyone in search of what Cobbett called a good living. Written with Cobbetts typical wit and bulldog curmudgeonliness it deserves its reputation as the founding bible of self-sufficiency and one of the greatest rural reads in the English language.
Born in Farnham, England, in 1763, William Cobbett traveled between England and America preaching the virtues of practical self-sufficiency. He was a combative and witty writer who like nothing better than to practice what he preached.
CONTENTS.
- Introduction. To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom--Brewing Beer,
- Brewing Beer, continued,
- Making Bread,
- Making Bread, continued--Brewing Beer--Keeping Cows,
- Keeping Cows, continued, --Keeping Pigs,
- Keeping Pigs, continued--Salting Mutton, and Beef,
- Bees, Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Fowls, Pigeons, Rabbits, Goats, and Ewes, Candles and Rushes, Mustard, Dress and Household Goods, and Fuel, Hops, and Yeast,
- Selecting, Cutting and Bleaching the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the purpose of making Hats and Bonnets--Constructing and using Ice-houses,
- Addition.--Mangel Wurzel--Cobbett's Corn,
