THIS MODERN HOUSE: Vintage Advice and Practical Science

Here is the home economics education we never got in school in an amazing and varied collection of proven wisdom and practical advice from real vintage textbooks. Learn handy home management skills such as sewing and replacing a button, reducing food waste, making seasonal cleaning of walls, floors and furnishing easier and saving you time and money, colour harmony for decorating, reusing bits of fabric for making a handmade laundry bag, knowing your way around a sewing machine, the principles of clothing design, cake making and baking, a happy working kitchen, vegetables and some of their nutrients and cooking times, meat substitutes, avoiding food waste, cooking for the ill, being a wise consumer, and various domestic management systems and the art of entertaining or having a party or an overnight guest. With metric conversions, 175pp in well illustrated flexi cover fully updated edition of a book first published as 'Home Economics'. Remainder mark.