If a person is canning and plans to be a Prepper during a major catastrophe, one had better know how to do it without an electric stove, and the books of the 1970s were so good, that many people now are going back to them. I have some going back a lot farther...
The most modern way is useless, if there is no electric. What happens if there is an attack on the power grids at harvest time? The ‘back to the land’ movement began in the 1960s, however the ‘how to’ and great ideas books peaked in 1970s, as people began researching and printing.... how it was done on the farms, before the Great Depression and pioneer days. That was a renewal of the old ways, and what worked and didn’t work.
I don’t remember any bad meals my mother made, and she canned most of what we ate, with my help growing up and the later years. My grandmother, and great grandparents did the same thing....I still live by those principles. There was no running to the grocery store when I was young, as we lived in the mountains and people bartered, because they had their own chickens, pigs, and other farm animals.
Self sufficiency is just that, no outside help.
Who doesn’t enjoy snuggling down with a good book. The best is an old cookbook. The older, the better.
I was half raised by my grandparents. Learned about farm animals from my grandfather and to garden and cook from my grandmother. Too bad those times are lost on the current generation.