Cold Meat and How to Disguise It: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening

Hunter Davies looks back at a hundred years of handy and often hilarious money-saving advice as it was applied to food, children, health, clothing and the home. Some of the hints and exhortations are mystifying, but all are part of social history and some could prove very useful in today's economic climate. For instance, you might want to turn some cold scraps of meat into a succulent new dish or knit some old bits of string together in order to make a jolly dishcloth . . .