Cook your heart out with generations of hand-me-down recipes and food lore! Barbara Swell has whisked up weather and cooking folklore, food insults, old-timey home remedies, vintage photos, romance superstitions, hearth crafts and 19th century chores.

Take Two & Butter 'Em While They're Hot: Heirloom Recipes & Kitchen Wisdom

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Barbara Swell

Regional & International

Native Ground Music

Reminisce about a simpler time as four 20th century mountain pioneer women share their cooking secrets. These great old-timey cooks stir in their own wisdom and tales of growing up on rural farms, where they prepared delicious meals by lantern light on wood cookstoves. Included are heirloom recipes, proverbs, folk remedies, 80 vintage photos, 19th century autograph rhymes and lots of stories.

Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom

A nostalgic, vintage cookbook full of weird and wonderful recipes that chronicles the changing kitchens of the first half of the 20th century.

Mama's in the Kitchen: Weird & Wonderful Home Cooking 1900-1950

American recipes from a time when the food was wholesome and life was full of fresh air and sunlight. These recipes, stories, jokes, advice, farm lore, and illustrations were collected from a wide variety of American agricultural sources from the 1880s to the 1950s.

Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking: Rural America Recipes & Farm Lore

Cooking Education & Reference

The 1st American Cookie Lady is based on the 76-page cookie diary of Anna ÒCookieÓ Covington, which contains 208 delicious recipes from a WWI-era American kitchen. AnnaÕs journal, kept between 1917 and 1920, predates the first cookie recipe books published in the 1920Õs and just might be the first American collection of cookie recipes. Even though Barbara presents these recipes exactly as they appear in the original diary, she also shares helpful tips and hints on baking, updates for many of the recipes, fun cookie poems, baking superstitions, and dozens of photos and illustrations.

The First American Cookie Lady

Baking

Native Ground Books & Music

Have a seat on the old front porch glider and let s string this mess of pole beans for our garden feast tonight. We ll have the same in-season supper our great grandmothers fixed back in 1895 when food was food, raised close to home and made from scratch for family and friends every day. A Garden Supper Tonight contains vintage economical seasonal recipes, food curiosities, and timeless advice on all things home and gardening. This book has seasonal recipes by month so that you can always be prepared to make a garden feast; you can make rhubarb vinaigrette in March for your springtime salads, stuffed pan-fried squash blossoms in July, maple roasted winter squash in September, and rum applesauce fruitcake in the chilly month of November. Recipes include: Cherry Cordial, Crackly Cheese Sticks, Garlic Scape Pesto, Dandelion Flower Salad, Manly-Man Salad, Buttermilk Biscuits, Ember Broiled Trout, Lemon Cornmeal Plum Cake, Pork with Apple Onion Jam, Apple Butter, Buttermilk Biscuits, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sour Cherry Amaretto Pie and more!

A Garden Supper Tonight: A year of farm-fresh recipes from a vintage kitchen

Bake up your great grandmother s wholesome, tasty hearth-baked breads in your own kitchen today! You ll be amazed by the stunning loaves and rolls you pluck from new or vintage cast ironware, baking stones, or everyday gizmos that produce yesterday s radiant cooking environments for your modern oven, wood fireplace, or campfire. Recipes from 1820 through 1920 include harvest apple bread, whole-grain little gem breads, oat sandwich loaf, buttermilk rolls, and lots more. Cookbook contains oodles of period photos and bread-lore and is appropriate for all skill levels.

Aunt Barb's Bread Book

Let's have a picnic! First, we'll craft a picnic basket from vintage treasures and fill it with classic and creative picnic fare. Then we're off to backyard, forest, roadside, or campfire to enjoy festive sandwiches, garden slaws, fire roasted spreads, homemade raspberry marshmallows and more. If that wasn't enough, we'll make a tin-can hobo stove, learn about roasting hot dogs on a nifty 1924 Model-T Ford exhaust manifold cooker and discover helpful hints to make your picnic special and easy! 5.5"x8.5", 80 pages.

Picnic Time

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