{ "item_title" : "The Canadian Receipt Book", "item_author" : [" Jen Rubio", "Melissa McAfee "], "item_description" : "At the time of Canadian Confederation, many Canadians were their own doctors, cooks, farmers, veterinarians, beekeepers, and even rat catchers. This survival guide, compiled fifteen decades ago, is a fascinating glimpse into Canadian life before modern conveniences. Melissa McAfee's fascinating preface notes that receipt is an older term, a set of instructions not only for cooking, but also for medicine and food preservation. In The Canadian Receipt Book, these receipts cover many tasks, some of which may seem hair-raising to the modern reader: removing worms from a cow's bronchial tubes may have been as important in 1867 as knowing how to make English-style tea cakes. Recipes for lemon pudding and rice snow-balls are found in one chapter; remedies for pig leprosy and a cow's mad staggers in another. The Receipt Book also contains business advertisements, a dizzying array from the moderately recognizable (insurance and jewellery) to the more dubious ( a drug warehouse advertisingcocoaine and liver syrup). Set to become a classic of early Canadian cooking and household management alongside Catherine Parr Trail, this page-turning collection reminds Canadians of the long distance we have travelled in 150 years.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/77/244/124/1772441244_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "20.00", "online_price" : "20.00", "our_price" : "20.00", "club_price" : "20.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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