Just Add Water: How to Use Dehydrated Foods and TVP

Name: Just Add Water: How to Use Dehydrated Foods and TVP
SKU: 1207
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Just Add Water has long been recognized as an excellent source for delicious, easily prepared recipes which use dehydrated foods. Its long-term popularity continues because it utilizes foods and recipes that families really like to eat, and because it adapts dehydrated food components into familiar and well-liked basic family meals. It’s brief and concise, but it tells homemakers the essential information they need. Chapter one explains the characteristics and advantages of dehydrated foods, focusing on their economy, lower weight, easier storage and longer shelf life. It is followed by a valuable chapter telling how to plan a year-long food storage program, complete with detailed planning charts and inventory guidelines. A third chapter gives suggestions for using dehydrated foods effectively, with lots of general and specific hints of real value. And then come the recipes—fifteen chapters of them. They tell how to prepare fruits, vegetables, meat substitutes and main dishes. They cover multi-purpose foods, salads and soups. They focus on satisfying the sweet tooth with honey dishes, a wide variety of desserts, cakes, and cookies. And they cover cereals, breads, rolls, biscuits, and even yeast items such as sour-dough starter. Few books provide so much useable information so concisely as Just Add Water!

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SKU: 1207 Category: Homemaking and Family Life Tag: Barbara G. Salsbury

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by Barbara G. Salsbury

Just Add Water has long been recognized as an excellent source for delicious, easily prepared recipes which use dehydrated foods. Its long-term popularity continues because it utilizes foods and recipes that families really like to eat, and because it adapts dehydrated food components into familiar and well-liked basic family meals. It’s brief and concise, but it tells homemakers the essential information they need. Chapter one explains the characteristics and advantages of dehydrated foods, focusing on their economy, lower weight, easier storage and longer shelf life. It is followed by a valuable chapter telling how to plan a year-long food storage program, complete with detailed planning charts and inventory guidelines. A third chapter gives suggestions for using dehydrated foods effectively, with lots of general and specific hints of real value. And then come the recipes—fifteen chapters of them. They tell how to prepare fruits, vegetables, meat substitutes and main dishes. They cover multi-purpose foods, salads and soups. They focus on satisfying the sweet tooth with honey dishes, a wide variety of desserts, cakes, and cookies. And they cover cereals, breads, rolls, biscuits, and even yeast items such as sour-dough starter. A chapter even gives recipes for making soaps. A useful final chapter lists numerous sources for further information. Few books provide so much useable information so concisely as Just Add Water. Marketers of dehydrated food storage units have included tens of thousands of them in their preparedness kits. Manufacturers of home food dehydrators have included thousands of copies with the machines they’ve shipped. Bookstores have found the book to be in continual demand. It’s a book that rightfully deserves a place on every homemaker’s bookshelf and belongs in every kitchen.

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