janie- I love listening to audiobooks when going on lonnnng drives! In Alaska I often drove through Denali National Park from Anchorage to Fairbanks which is about an 8 hour trip. Several audiobooks often made the drive nice- especially on foggy or cloudy days when "The Mountain" and other mountains weren't out and the secenery was hidden. (BTW- "The Mountain" is Alaska lingo for Denali- or Mt. McKinley- the tallest peak in all of North America)

I found another book, it must be mid to late 19th century but the two front leaves are missing.

It is called Every House Keepers Book.

How to preserve fresh beef.

Beef and mutton have bee preserved in a sound state through a whole voyage to the West Indies, by the folllowing method. When the meat is cold, it is cut up into quarters and sprinkled with these ingredents: lignum vitae, in chips, one pound; common salt and course sugar, each four ounces; sal prunella , half an ounce. when well covered, close the whole in sheet lead, and lay in a chest, and full it up with sawdust. When. When taken out to be dressed, it must be carefully cleaned and roasted immediatley.

Using this method I bet they didn't make it back from the West Indies eating this meat:eek:

How hysterical! No wonder life exspectancy was like 40 during that era:o

My brother loves to listen to them while driving like you.