In a time of economic insecurity, LaRae Olsen provides easy and helpful tips for resolving common household problems with items you might just find under the kitchen sink or on the back of the shelf in the pantry. The tips may be “old-fashioned,” but the solutions to the problems will never go out of style. Olsen has a conversational writing style, which makes reading “Aunt Rae’s Remedies” less like aboring, institutional how-to book and more of an adventure of mishapsand their resolutions.
Reading Olsen’s book is like having a personal expert standing behind you as you work to eliminate a variety of issues — involving everything from roaches to hard water residue to sunburns. With a good mixture of real-life stories and instructions, this book is one you can read for fun and then keep handy for reference.
Rachel Glidden
Specialty Publications Editor
The Spectrum & Daily News
St. George, Utah
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Aunt Rae's Remedies Book Review
This is a review written by Professor Gholdston of Southern Utah University (The Captain)
If you don't already have a copy of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's "BoyScout Handbook," or one of its eleven successive editions, you need to have a copy of "Aunt Rae's Remedies."
The newly released book, a fraction the mass of the tome Boy Scouts now lug around, was written by LaRae Olsen, a.k.a. Aunt Rae, and published by Cedar Fort Inc. in Springville, Utah.
It tells, in almost narrative style, the story of a how a family close to the middle of Nowhere, Utah, found reasonable ways around dependency on WalMart to live harmoniously with nature.
It's the kind of book that should be in every emergency preparedness kit, as well as in arms reach in an effective kitchen. Particularly now, as life becomes more precarious and the like lihood that the corner pharmacy will not still be on the corner by the end of the year increases, we all need to figure out how to do more with less.
Aunt Rae teaches us how to make lye soap, how to keep ants out the house and how to quiet canker sores with your own ear wax (eww!)
And she does it as a mother, daughter and granddaughter who has learned how to become less tied to cash and electricity.
Put red cloths in your first-aid kit, for instance, so the kids don't see red blood on white washcloths when you clean up cuts and scrapes.
Put Jet-Dry drying agent in your mixture to clean your windows on the outside, so you don't have to dry them, is another trick she's learned.
But this is not just another a how-to book. It's the story of afamily struggling to get by with what was on hand. It's a delightful,easy read which will leave you wishing you knew more about this solid family.
It's indexed into categories and the tips are easy to find, but they are almost secondary to the yarns weaving them together. From the time Vale needed to clean ink off a white shirt to the worst incident when Wes came home so soaked in skunk stink he had to strip on the back porch so his clothes, and his skin, could be neutralized.
This is a fun book you'll want to buy to read and then keep to reference.
John Gholdston
Communications Department
Southern Utah University
If you don't already have a copy of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's "BoyScout Handbook," or one of its eleven successive editions, you need to have a copy of "Aunt Rae's Remedies."
The newly released book, a fraction the mass of the tome Boy Scouts now lug around, was written by LaRae Olsen, a.k.a. Aunt Rae, and published by Cedar Fort Inc. in Springville, Utah.
It tells, in almost narrative style, the story of a how a family close to the middle of Nowhere, Utah, found reasonable ways around dependency on WalMart to live harmoniously with nature.
It's the kind of book that should be in every emergency preparedness kit, as well as in arms reach in an effective kitchen. Particularly now, as life becomes more precarious and the like lihood that the corner pharmacy will not still be on the corner by the end of the year increases, we all need to figure out how to do more with less.
Aunt Rae teaches us how to make lye soap, how to keep ants out the house and how to quiet canker sores with your own ear wax (eww!)
And she does it as a mother, daughter and granddaughter who has learned how to become less tied to cash and electricity.
Put red cloths in your first-aid kit, for instance, so the kids don't see red blood on white washcloths when you clean up cuts and scrapes.
Put Jet-Dry drying agent in your mixture to clean your windows on the outside, so you don't have to dry them, is another trick she's learned.
But this is not just another a how-to book. It's the story of afamily struggling to get by with what was on hand. It's a delightful,easy read which will leave you wishing you knew more about this solid family.
It's indexed into categories and the tips are easy to find, but they are almost secondary to the yarns weaving them together. From the time Vale needed to clean ink off a white shirt to the worst incident when Wes came home so soaked in skunk stink he had to strip on the back porch so his clothes, and his skin, could be neutralized.
This is a fun book you'll want to buy to read and then keep to reference.
John Gholdston
Communications Department
Southern Utah University
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Aunt Rae's Remedies--- Now Available
Aunt Rae’s Remedies
A modern combination of Granny Clampett and Martha Stewart. In this collection of home remedies and household hints, Aunt Rae will you keep you laughing as you learn new ways to keep a cleaner house, become self-sufficient, and be a healthier person.
A modern combination of Granny Clampett and Martha Stewart. In this collection of home remedies and household hints, Aunt Rae will you keep you laughing as you learn new ways to keep a cleaner house, become self-sufficient, and be a healthier person.
In this book would find pioneer remedies like
keep bugs from entering your house
cure bee stings
make homemade cough syrup and soap
clean your house better and faster
deal with emergencies
care for animals
have a better garden
cure bee stings
make homemade cough syrup and soap
clean your house better and faster
deal with emergencies
care for animals
have a better garden
About the Author
LaRae Olsen grew up in Teasdale, Utah, set in the beautiful heart of Wayne County. At the feet of her mother, Inez White, she learned how to use remedies to heal family members and farm animals alike. By request from friends, she began to write down cures she remembered using as a child and placed them in her mother's old tin box. Ten years and many rewrites later, her book was finally finished. LaRae now lives in central Utah with her husband, Lanny. They have three children, Jennifer, Brandon, and Karen. LaRae worked for the local newspaper as a senior style columnist and is involved with a writing group that has been a great resource and support to her talent.Look online at Cedar Fort
http://www.cedarfort.com/catalog/9781599552095.html
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ (Search LaRae Olsen)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Welcome Y'all
I am LaRae Olsen and welcome to my first blog. Don't expect the miracles of great writing. This comes with time and effort.
I have a new book coming out later this year published by Cedar Fort Publishing. It is called, at this time, Aunt Rae's Remedies. Granny Clampett meets Martha Stewart in a free-for-all battle for cures that work the best.
This is a collection of pioneer remedies that work great today--what is old is new again.
I have a new book coming out later this year published by Cedar Fort Publishing. It is called, at this time, Aunt Rae's Remedies. Granny Clampett meets Martha Stewart in a free-for-all battle for cures that work the best.
This is a collection of pioneer remedies that work great today--what is old is new again.
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