Four plain books · One kitchen's worth of know-how

Feed your family well on less, the old Amish way.

Stock a penny pantry, cook plain hearty suppers, put up the harvest safely, and run a thrifty home, all from Grandma Clara's cedar chest of ledgers, set down in plain words for today's kitchen.

• 93 farmhouse recipes from chicken corn soup to shoofly pie
• USDA-tested canning times with altitude charts for every recipe
• 17 printable ledger pages for your kitchen binder

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Why these books

Grocery prices keep climbing. Mamm never had a grocery store at all.

When I was a girl on our farm in Lancaster County, there was no supermarket at the end of the lane and no electricity in the house. There was a cellar under the kitchen, a garden behind the wash house, and a long pantry shelf my mother kept as neat as a church pew.

Mamm fed nine of us on a small farm income, and she wrote down how in a plain ledger book. Those ledgers sat in my cedar chest for more than sixty years. These books are what's in them: the pantry, the suppers, the canning, and the hundred small habits that kept our family fed, clothed and out of debt.

You don't need a farm or a bonnet to use them. You need a cupboard, a few good jars, a pencil, and the willingness to waste a little less than you did last week.

The Cedar Chest Collection

Four books. One plain, thrifty kitchen.

Each book stands on its own, and together they cover the whole round of a frugal home: what to keep, what to cook, how to put it by, and how to run the house.

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What you'll be able to do

Plain skills that pay for themselves.

Meet Grandma Clara

"Pull up a chair. Let's open the cupboard together."

I was born in the winter of 1944 on a quiet family farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. My mother, Mamm, kept a ledger of everything: what the cellar held, what the bushels cost, how one chicken could feed a family for three days.

I've kept the old ways where they still serve. Where science has learned something my mother didn't know, like safe canning times, I've said so plainly, because Mamm never once put pride ahead of her family's safety, and I won't either.

God bless your home,

Grandma Clara

The complete collection

Everything in the cedar chest, for one small price.

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