The Prairie Girl’s Guide to Life – Book Review and Giveaway
The Prairie Girls Guide to Life:
How to Sew a Sampler Quilt & 49 Other Pioneer Projects for the Modern Girl
This delightful little book is sure to win your heart if you love timeless wisdom, crafts, and recipes. The Prairie Girl’s Guide to Life by Jennifer Worrick is chock full of ideas to feed your pioneer’s spirit. Learn how to:
- predict the weather
- embroider a pillow
- bake a rhubarb pie
- make bread and butter pickles
- knit a shawl
- make a night cream
- braid hair
- prepare sweet cherries
- lay a fire
- pan for gold
- make rock candy
- braid a rug
- make candles
- spin yarn
- milk a cow
- and much more!
I wanted to share a particularly fun recipe from the book with you. When I was a kid, rock candy was such a treat! We would go down to the shops in Warm Springs, GA (close to where I grew up) and buy rock candy. So, when I saw this recipe, I knew I wanted to make it with my own kids.
Rock Candy
What you need:
- clean glass jar
- 6-inch ice cream sticks
- pencil
- tape
- 4 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- food coloring
In a saucepan, heat (but do not boil) 2 cups of the sugar and the water. Stir slowly until the sugar is completely dissolved. Gradually add a few drops of food coloring – your choice – and the remaining sugar, stirring continuously until all the sugar is dissolved.
Pour your colorful sugar water into a clean glass jar. Tape the sticks to a pencil and suspend them across the mouth of the jar so that the ends hang into the liquid.
Crystals suitable to eat will form in a hour and continue to grow for several days to a week. Pieces can be broken off and eaten after the first hour, but try to resist the urge to suck on them.
Although you may see modest results quickly, larger rock-candy crystals will take time to form. Good things come to those who wait, and pretty sticks of candy are yours to be had if you show a bit of patience.
Yields 12 ounces
I am fairly certain you will find a wealth of ideas here in this book. And, if you homeschool girls, this book is a perfect addition to your home economics course! If you would like to win a copy of this book comment here and on Friday of next week – February 5th – I will draw a name!
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Hello! I think the new book that you mentioned sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing the information with us.
Sounds intriguing! I love books that contain projects and helpful information!
Sounds like a good book!
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What a wonderful book. I think I am going to make some rock candy with my granddaughter.
So Cute! Don’t you love the ’simple’ ways and teaching our children to enjoy them?
This book sounds great. We love anything crafty around here!
That book sounds really useful! It’d be great to win a copy, but I’m going to buy one anyway if I don’t
This book sounds WONDERFUL!!! We are using the Prairie Primer as our curriculum this year. Thanks for the opportunity.
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The vintage atmosphere is beautiful – back to basics is always the Best
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And, yes, I would love to enter into the drawing for the old fashioned book. Thank you.
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Nancy
What a COOL book. It looks like a wealth of information!
Sounds great! How do I enter the giveaway?
Sounds like a great book!
I would love this book for my youngest daughters!
I would love to win this book. My daughter is working her way through the Little House series of books right now and it would be so much fun to share this book with her.
This book sounds adorable!
Sounds like a book my 9 year old would enjoy going through with me. Thanks for the contest!
I would love this book! I love the old timey ideas!
My girls often tell me how they would like to live ‘like the old days.’ I think this book would be fantastic for them. Thanks!
These recipes would be great for sharing with my younget daughter and my grandkids. Love the simple things that my grandparents enjoyed.
I’ve just found your website and it looks great. I also home school 4 children ages 11-7, two girls-two boys. It is a real chalange, educating and keeping a Christian home. But God is good and supplies all my needs. We use Sonlight Curiculum and LOVE it. Please enter my name into the drawing for the book, I’m always looking for ways to teach my children how life used to be. Thank you for your ministry.
My 4 year old daughter has been enjoying watching Little House and hearing me read the stories to her. I love he idea of being able to learn how to do many of the same things we are enjoing reading about. We are looking into making her a pioneer dress, apron and bonnet. This book would be so much fun to have.
Count me in for this giveaway. This sounds like a really great book!
This sounds some great ideas and fun times to be spent with my granddaughter.
Sounds very neat! Please enter me! Thanks. Alida w5
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