Old Style Inspiration Books

Bargain_Rzl

Is it Little House in the Big Woods which gives a fairly detailed account of how to make your own smoked venison?

Edit: ...and of course, Little House on the Prairie gives the ultimate Old Style lesson - how to build your own house from scratch!

balmaiden

Yes, Katieowl,me, me me, I know what happened to the Wests,I have a later book called "A Patch in the forest" it is written after the Wests retire from work in Bristol (Where they lived after leaving Wales) they go to live in the forest of dean and again live the simple life. Not such a good read as the earlier books in my opinion, but like you I really wanted to know what happened next.I have been a lurker for eons and finally have something to say!!

newleaf

This is a great thread black saturn, thanks for starting it! I have a long list of new books to read now

serena

Oooh!! Lots of my favourites, and a few I haven't heard of before!

No-one has mentioned the Milly-Molly-Mandy books. I loved these as a child (and if you've read them you'll remember the booby rabbit...) and my favourite story was the one where Milly-Molly-Mandy is given a penny, and then spends it on mustard seeds, and when she cuts them, her mother gives her a penny, which she spends on something else... Or perhaps the one where she learns to do patchwork and makes her mother a new tea cosy.

Now I'm going to have to raid my daughter's bookshelf and read them again!

Peem

serena wrote: »

the Milly-Molly-Mandy books.

Oh my goodness. No one else ever rememberrs milly-molly-mandy. I soo wanted to be her when I was a kid

thanks for making me feel less of a freak. She does exist, she does, she does

I need to take your post as evidence to a lot of peopls:D

thriftlady_2

I'm a Milly-Molly-Mandy fan too My Dd loves them. Did anyone else colour in the illustrations, or was that just me?

My favourite story was when her family clear out the little room used to store all the jam pots and decorate it for her bedroom. The one where her father makes her a den in an hollow tree was another favourite.

thriftlady_2

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

Is it Little House in the Big Woods which gives a fairly detailed account of how to make your own smoked venison?

yes, it is. It's so detailed you could probably go and do it yourself.

black-saturn

If anyone likes the Darling Buds of May there is a free DVD on the front of the Express (or is it the Mail - cant remember now ) every day this week.

Theres also some good Laura Ingalls Wilder links here:

http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/frames.html

http://www.littlehousebooks.com/

THIRZAH

I enjoyed "The Country Child" by Alison Uttley (she wrote the Little Grey Rabbit books). It's based on her own childhood in Derbyshire. Her father was a farmer and she was an only child. The farm was four miles from the school and she had to walk, alone, cross country, every day.She describes the life on the farm, their meals and what she got for Christmas-it's a lovely book.

thriftlady_2

Oh, yes Thirzah that's one of my favourites too:) Did you know she wrote a little book of recipes called Recipes From an Old Farmhouse ? pub. 1966 so probably out of print, but try amazon. It is full of anecdotes about her farmhouse childhood. My copy has beautiful illustrations.

A Traveller In Time by the same author is another one of my favourites - a novel so not strictly relevant here but it describes Derbyshire farmhouse life at the turn of the century and the 16th century.

Btw The Country Child is available as an unabridged audio book - lovely to listen to while you're baking:)