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From Publishers Weekly
Over 100 authentic recipes of pioneer food from the pages of Laura Ingalls Wilder's series are included in this book. All ages.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The New York Times
"Surprising and delightful ... Each recipe is prefaced by a short and superbly well-researched essay on that particular dish's origins, development and characteristics."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiration, Literary Analysis, and a Food Revelation,
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This review is from: Little House Cookbook The (Paperback)
This is not just a cookbook, it's an interactive history book, and an in-depth analysis of Laura Wilder's Little House books. Here we see the abundant, lush supply of high-quality food available on the dairy farm where Almanzo grew up contrasted with the catch-as-catch-can meals Laura's mother was forced to cobble together (starling pie, anyone?). We are reminded of the heroism of two teenagers - Almanzo and his brother - that saved dozens of families from starvation, and see clearly in her loving detail of food, how much Laura valued having enough of it.I grew up in a rural area in the 1960's. How we prepared food then was often not far off from how it was done in the Little House cookbook, believe it or not. So I've used the recipes - like that for mincemeat pie - to inform my own cooking. The soft pencil illustrations by Garth Williams - reproduced from the Little House books - are radiant and exquisitely simple. Their little details point out Williams' depth of research for source material for these pictures. The Little House Cookbook was an inspiration to read the Little House books again, through adult eyes this time. Prepare to be surprised and amazed when you read them again.
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The Little House Cookbook,
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This review is from: The Little House Cookbook (Hardcover)
This is a really helpful resource not just of old recipes but of informaton on all aspects of food in their lives. You learn how, where and with what they made their food prep. It is a very interesting and enjoyable book to read.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love this book but don't use it,
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This review is from: Little House Cookbook The (Paperback)
Don't get me wrong, I plan to love this book a lot more when I have a daughter of my own who will (hopefully) be as enchanted with the Little House series as I was and still am. I vividly remember all the scenes involving food in the books and how much rich detail Wilder put into each description. As a very young cooking enthusiast with a runaway imagination, I saw myself plucking chickens and running around in calico trying to find a place in the taffy pull.For these reasons, I practically grabbed the book from one of my eight-year-old students' hands when she showed her library copy of it to me. I loved the pictures, the story excerpts, the idea that someone was dedicated enough to do the research and find out as much as she could about how the Wilders and the Ingallses created these unique and hearty meals. It serves as a fantastic book to curl up with and picture yourself turning a spit or making a savory pie with blackbirds (erm..), but it doesn't inspire me to get off the couch and turn a spit, or rather, construct some kind of spit-like apparatus in my kitchen. Maybe farther down the road I'll have the room in my apartment and time in my life to devote the effort to this book that it deserves. It is a treasure to me, but you won't find its recipes on my table. I know for a fact, however, that if my mother had owned it when I was a little girl, we would have done all we could to make these authentic meals. If only Barbara M. Walker would put out a "Little House for the Little Apartment" cookbook companion.
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