The older the recipe book, the better - Betty Crocker, Fannie Farmer, Williamsburg, pioneer and outdoor cooking and also solar recipes. Add to that an edible weed or foraging book.
True dat. I've been making a study of books written in America post civil war and pre 1920s crash. Their instructions are a little hazy, as are the measurements, but I get the gist.
Most of the books are available for free, somewhere on the web.
/johnny
If required (and I can, some, I can't) I'll explain it.
This actually does matter for the article that I'm writing.
/johnny
but you need to supply the meat first and protect it from 2 and 4 legged varmints...hence MY cookbook.
it comes in at #1 with a bullet, of any prepper list.