Home Ec for Everyone: Practical Life Skills in 118 Projects : Cooking · Sewing · Laundry & Clothing · Domestic Arts · Life Skills

Did you remember your scissors? Discover the tremendous pleasure of learning how to do it yourself how to cook, sew, clean, and more, the way it used to be taught in Home Ec class. With illustrated step by step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy graphics, Home Ec for everyone offers a crash course in learning 118 practical life skills-everything from frosting the perfect birthday cake to fixing a zipper to whitening a dingy T-shirt to packing a suitcase (the right way). It’s all made clear in plain, nontechnical language for any level of DIYer, and it comes with a guarantee: No matter how simple the task, doing it with your own two hands provides a feeling of accomplishment that no app or device will ever give you. Cover Title Page Dedication Copyright Page Acknowledgments Contents Introduction Cooking Cooking Tool Kit #1 How to Boil Water #2 How to Boil an Egg #3 How to Peel a Boiled Egg #4 How to Crack an Egg #5 How to Whip Cream #6 How to Stock Up #7 How to Be a Thrifty Shopper #8 How to Freeze Hamburger Meat #9 How to Buy an Apple #10 How to Handle Lettuce #11 How to Care for Iceberg Lettuce #12 How to Make Vinaigrette #13 How to Make Caesar Salad #14 How to Zest a Lemon #15 How to Juice a Lemon #16 How to Cut a Lemon Wedge Garnish #17 How to Chop an Onion #18 How to Measure Flour #19 How to Knead Bread Dough #20 How to Make a Sandwich #21 How to Refresh Stale Bread #22 How to Make #23 How to Make Croutons #24 How to Make Pizza #25 How to Have Dinner Ready in Thirty Minutes #26 How to Make Soup #27 How to Grill Vegetables #28 How to Saute Vegetables #29 How to Steam Vegetables #30 How to Roast Vegetables #31 How to Blanch Vegetables #32 How to Chop Broccoli #33 How to Make Mashed Potatoes #34 How to Cook a Steak #35 How to Cook Lamb Chops #36 How to Cook Chicken Breasts #37 How to Roast a Chicken #38 How to Brine a Bird #39 How to Braise Beef #40 How to Make a Pot of Chili #41 How to Fry Chicken #42 How to Cook French Fries #43 How to Cook a Pot of Beans #44 How to Cook Rice #45 How to Roll a Burrito #46 How to Make Maki #47 How to Cook with Tofu #48 How to Repurpose Common Leftovers #49 How to Start Canning #50 How to Make Perfect Piecrust #51 How to Peel an Apple #52 How to Cream Butter, Sugar, and Eggs #53 How to Make Cookies #54 How to Frost a Birthday Cake #55 How to Make Ice Cream #56 How to Make Sorbet in a Bag #57 How to Make a Pot of Coffee #58 How to Clean a Coffeemaker #59 How to Brew a Cup of Tea #60 How to (Mostly) Decaffeinate Tea #61 How to Make Iced Tea #62 How to Clean Your Kitchen Sewing Sewing Tool Kit #63 How to Thread a Needle #64 How to Care for Your Needles #65 How to Sew on a Button #66 How to Make Your Own Sewing Kit #67 How to Baste #68 How to Attach a Snap #69 How to Fix a Rip in Your Jeans #70 How to Fix a Hole in Your Shirt #71 How to Hem Pants #72 How to Hem the No-Sew Way #73 How to Thread a Sewing Machine #74 How to Hem a Skirt #75 How to Make a Pillow #76 How to Make a Comfy No-Sew Fleece Pillow #77 How to Make a Super-Easy No-Sew Knot Pillow #78 How to Make an Apron #79 How to Install a Zipper #80 How to Fix a Broken Pull #81 How to Fix a Separated Zipper Laundry and Clothing Laundry Tool Kit #82 How to Read a Laundry Label #83 How to Sort a Heap of Dirty Clothes for Washing #84 How to Remove Ketchup from a White Shirt #85 How to Wash a Load of Clothes #86 How to Wash a Down Comforter #87 How to Care for a Sweater #88 How to Save a Shrunken Sweater #89 How to Dry Sweaters on a Drying Rack #90 How to Reshape a Wet Sweater #91 How to Fold a Fitted Sheet #92 How to Iron a Shirt #93 How to Hand-Wash #94 How to Hand-Wash Curtains #95 How to Whiten a Dingy T-Shirt #96 How to Fold a T-Shirt the Retail-Store Way Domestic Arts Domestic Arts Tool Kit #97 How to Hand-Wash a Dish #98 How to Load a Dishwasher #99 How to Mop a Floor #100 How to Vacuum #101 How to Make a Bed #102 How to Start a Bedroom Routine #103 How to Hang Curtains #104 How to Remove Gum from a Rug #105 How to Erase an Ink Spill from Carpet #106 How to Remove Pet Stains from Carpet #107 The Poop on Poop #108 How to “Spring Clean” Life Skills #109 How to Make a Household Budget #110 How to Set the Table for a Fancy Formal Dinner #111 How to Answer a Wedding Invitation #112 How to Pack a Suitcase #113 How to Tie a Scarf #114 How to Tie a Tie #115 How to Tie a Necktie on Someone Else #116 How to Polish a Pair of Shoes #117 How to Write a Thank-You Note #118 How to Stock a First-Aid Kit INDEX CONVERSION TABLES "Discover the sublime pleasure and endless rewards of being self-sufficient. In two smartly designed and straightforward encyclopedias of DIY, Home Ec for Everyone and Shop Class for Everyone (previously published together as The Useful Book), here's everything you need to know to fix it, cook it, make it, clean it, build it, and sew it yourself. Each title features dozens of essential skills, practical how-tos, and projects, each explained and illustrated with step-by-step instructions, plus relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. Home Ec covers what used to be called the domestic arts, including everything from chopping an onion to hemming a pair of pants to folding a fitted sheet to writing a great thank-you note. Shop Class empowers each of us to become a skilled handyperson, a confident master of one's domain who can hang a picture, paint a room, build a birdhouse, install a lamp, or fix a flat tire. We may live in the information age, but there's no app that will unclog a drain-only life skills"-- Provided by publisher Clear step-by-step instructions for everything you would have been taught in Home Ec class: cooking and baking, sewing and mending, home-keeping tips, and more--in a stylish and easy-to-use reference guide for today's DIY'ers, homeowners and renters, new adults, and anyone who wants to be more self-sufficient at home