Would you know what to do if you had to survive without access to modern cooking appliances? This book will teach you all you need to know about fire and cooking with fire! Topics include selecting trees for firewood, woodlots, seasoning timber, fire construction and lighting, historical uses of fire or smoke, how to use a wood stove, indoor fires, campfires, emergency fire, simple survival skills surrounding fire and cooking, caring for a range and iron cookware, and how to use different types of fires and ranges to produce good meals.
A third of the book contains recipes from homegrown produce, cooking game or tough meat, bone broths, smoking basics, processing homegrown maize, an assortment of preserves, and much, much more. There's also a house design for sustainable living and heat and smoke management!
