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Listening to Little House in the Woods, it's an audiobook. It's a little weirdly narrated but I'm past that now. So I find it interesting that they have maple syrup as the whatever sugar and flavor add on. But they break out the white process sugar when they want to treat somebody or create some special foods. So now we know that the white processed stuff is the death and actually using maple syrup is quite healthy for you, it's interesting.

Listening to Little House in the Woods, it's an audiobook. It's a little weirdly narrated but I'm past that now. So I find it interesting that they have maple syrup as the whatever sugar and flavor add on. But they break out the white process sugar when they want to treat somebody or create some special foods. So now we know that the white processed stuff is the death and actually using maple syrup is quite healthy for you, it's interesting.

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I had an elderly neighbor that grew up on a sorghum farm. One day she gave me huge jars of home canned sorghum. I asked her why didn't she want the black sugary stuff and she said when she was little, everything was flavored with sorghum. She hated it.

BTW: can you share a link to the book series?

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I got it from my public library so you have to have a library card and download an app for it. I would if I could but there's no way to do that as far as I know. You can find it in nefarious ways if you choose to play in those dark arts.

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Everything that was present in Laura's world would have been made on site from local materials, or brought from the east. Refined sugar would have been something unusual, the cargo space on rail and wagon taken up by other things like manufactured metals, cloth, glass, etc.

Sugar is fine, but it's in too many things that it doesn't need to be in. Pie? Sure. Everything else? No. (It probably would have also been less refined sugar than we use today.)

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Yeah that's a good point.

Little House in the Woods is actually about her husband as a boy. It's interesting the detail they go into describing the process of things. Like they describe how the cobbler makes shoes and how they bail hay, how they process oats, how they process potatoes.

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I read all the books when I was in grade school. She was a good narrator, I swear I was there for some of the things that happened in those books.

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Farmer Boy is about Almanzo & his childhood. Big Woods is Laura and her parents. I like the detail of the books, you learn how ppl fended for themselves and it’s good to know how to do that for when SHTF. Make soap, make hats, smoke meat, etc.

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Right I meant Farmer boy thanks.

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See also "the home mechanic" for interesting shtf stuff.

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That is correct. There's a youtube channel called the Townsends that has priceless information for surviving.

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I just recently dl those books, they are next on my list to listen to.

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Yeah they're pretty good, I'm just doing one at a time as they come up on the audiobook cue from my library.