Charlotte Mason is the author. I wonder if her family is getting royalties.

The lady's assistant,

 for regulating and supplying her table,

 being a complete system of cookery, &c.

Hm. Thinking of drying mushrooms. Researching ways to do it. They seem unnecessarily complicated. None of them list salt drying with table salt...hey, except this book.

As you can see, it's pretty damn old, but I'm going to try this method and also hanging and air drying.

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Note to self. When someone asks you if you need to use the bathroom before they take a shower, even if you don't feel you need to use the bathroom, use the bathroom. Because five minutes later you will need to use the bathroom and this is a one bathroom house.

I want another bathroom.

And I'm not a guy, I can't piss out behind the garage.

Well - I CAN. It is within the realm of possibility. It is not a physical impossibility for a woman, like making semen would be.

But I'm not going to piss out behind the garage. Because we live in a suburb.

Yes, that's the ONLY reason.

Because that's how I roll.

This is why my SCA persona is Norse. Because they were some practical motherfuckers.

I bet they salt-dried their mushrooms too.