Your Household Guide

When I was making my banana bread today, I was digging through my cookbooks and came across an old reference guide that used to belong to my Grandma. I've looked through it before, but took some time to really read it today. Behold, "Your Household Guide":

Note the copywright date.

There are a variety of tips and info that average person might want to know today, like what to get on various wedding annivesaries

and weights and measure conversions (though I've never needed to know how much a bushel is...).

But the most amusing are the tips like these:





While I'm washing baby's bonnet, I'm going to go lard up the windows and then scald the feathers off the chicken. Phew. No wonder my Grandma mostly stuck to making pies when she and my Grandpa got old.

Sometimes I wish I could be a housewife in the 50s, but I'd probably miss blogging and watching great shows like "Rock of Love" and every design program on HGTV. And cable and the internet. And my cell phone. Oh, who am I kidding? I just want to go back in time, shop, and then wear all the vintage clothes in the present time. If only...