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The Little House Cookbook

Name: The Little House Cookbook
ISBN: 9780064460903

Frontier Foods From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories

Barbara M. Walker

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 7, 1989

Reading lane: 19th-Century U.S.

This award-winning cookbook features more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicles in her classic Little House books.

19th-Century U.S.Midwestern Cooking Western States Cooking middle

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Why This Clicks

Prairie, at the Table

Recipes, story excerpts, and historical context bring frontier cooking into focus.

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More than 100 dishes drawn from the Little House books
A closer look at pioneer cooking methods and ingredients

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Recipes alongside excerpts and researched historical context
Illustrations by Garth Williams

Book Details

Authors: Barbara M. Walker
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: September 7, 1989
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: 19th-Century U.S. · Midwestern Cooking
Reading lane: 19th-Century U.S.

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Writers' Lives for Kids
Biographies of Women for Kids
Kids' Cooking
Parents & Parenting

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Kids' Gardening
Girls & Young Women
19th Century U.S.
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This award-winning cookbook features more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicles in her classic Little House books. A great gift for Little House fans and anyone who wants more information about what life on the prairie was really like. With this cookbook, you can learn how to make classic frontier dishes like corn dodgers, mincemeat pie, cracklings, and pulled molasses candy. The book also includes excerpts from the Little House books, fascinating and thoroughly researched historical context, and details about the cooking methods that pioneers like Ma Ingalls used, as well as illustrations by beloved artist Garth Williams. This is a chance to dive into the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American pioneer, women's club member, and farm homesteader. This book has been widely praised and is the winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The Horn Book praised it as "a culinary and literary feast."