Description

The Cottage Economy

by William Cobbett

Cottage Economy is a book by William Cobbett which covers many practical instructions such how to bake bread, brew beer, keep livestock and "other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family" with the aim of aiding the "Labouring Classes" in having a "good living." It is considered to be a timeless guide on matters of self-sufficiency.

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,