Before refrigerators and freezers, there was the ice box. You could buy an ice box or, if you were crafty, you could make a small one for yourself.
These simple directions could come in handy for any survivalists or preppers. You never know what skills you will need in an emergency situation.
Homemade Ice Box
An icebox in one of the most useful; accessories to healthful housekeeping.
If you haven’t an icebox, make one. Get a soap box, a tin can, a few newspapers and some sawdust.
If soap box is not available, a fruit packing case will do. In which ever you use, place tin pail surrounded with sheet of tin bent in circular form, which makes an air space. Between this and walls of box pack sawdust.
Place pail in circular chamber. Place milk bottle in pail and pack ice around bottle. Fold dozen thicknesses of newspaper size of box and place over top with lid.
Cost of ice for box of this kind would be buy a few cents a day. It will keep the baby’s milk cool and prevent butter from melting.
Source: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois newspaper). August 07, 1912.
