Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family

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Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family

William Cobbett

(Cambridge library collection, . History)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Reprint. Originally published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], [1822] (stereotype ed.)

Includes index

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Description

William Cobbett (1763-1835) was at various times a soldier, a farmer, a radical activist and politician, and a journalist. At a time when the Industrial Revolution was dramatically changing the face of rural Britain, Cobbett was constantly concerned with improving the living conditions of the labouring classes. First published in 1821 as a series of pamphlets that sold over 30,000 copies, Cottage Economy demonstrates Cobbett's philosophy that the labourer should be taught industry, sobriety, frugality and 'the duty of using his best exertions for the rearing of his family'. With practical instructions, still relevant to those who seek to become self-reliant, Cobbett teaches the labouring classes of the nineteenth century the arts of brewing beer, keeping livestock, making bread, and 'other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family.' Cottage Economy performs timelessly as the quintessential guide to self-sufficiency.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Brewing beer continued
  • 3. Making bread
  • 4. Making bread continued
  • 5. Keeping cows
  • 6. Keeping pigs
  • 7. Bees, geese, ducks, turkeys, fowls, pigeons, rabbits, goats and ewes, candles and rushes, mustard.

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