The Farmer's Wife Comfort Food Cookbook: Over 300 blue-ribbon recipes! (Spiral-bound)

by Lela Nargi (Editor)
Key Phrases: buttered crumbs, plain boiled rice, hot tat, New England, Vegetable Stew, The Farmer's Wife (more...)

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The very notion of comfort food could have begun in the farm kitchen, with its rich aromas of bubbling stew and apple pie, its stock of fresh eggs and butter and bacon, its warming custard on a cold winters night or cool spoonful of home-churned ice cream on a steaming Fourth of July. Culled from the pages of The Farmers Wife, the beloved magazine published and pored over throughout Americas heartland for forty-six years, the recipes in this cookbook allow today's cook to recreate all the comforting tastes of the farm kitchen--and to create new memories of food that means home.

With straightforward directions and wholesome ingredients to suit the busiest farm wife--or twenty-first-century cook--these hearty soups, casseroles, roasts, pot pies, desserts, and refreshing beverages conjure all the sweet and savory comforts of country cooking at its best.

Here’s a sampling of the recipes you’ll find inside:
• Mammy’s Corn Bread
• Clam Chowder
• Deviled Eggs
• Macaroni and Cheese
• French Stew
• Chili Con Carne
• Boston Baked Beans
• Pot Pie
• Escalloped Tuna and Peas
• Southern Fried Chicken
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Rhubarb Brown Betty
• Flapper’s Pudding
• Ginger Ale

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Culled from the pages of The Farmer’s Wife, the beloved magazine published and pored over throughout America’s heartland for forty-six years, these recipes allow today’s cook to recreate all the comforting tastes of the farm kitchen--and to create new memories of food that means “home.” With straightforward directions and wholesome ingredients to suit the busiest farm wife--or twenty-first-century cook--these hearty soups and casseroles, roasts and pot pies, desserts, and refreshing beverages conjure all the sweet and savory comforts of country cooking at its best.

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Product Details Spiral-bound: 224 pages Publisher: Voyageur Press; 1st edition (February 15, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0760329249 ISBN-13: 978-0760329245 Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #413,124 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 224 pages
• Publisher: Voyageur Press; 1st edition (February 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760329249
• ISBN-13: 978-0760329245
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #413,124 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A thoroughly delightful volume for browsing, March 2, 2008

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Life without the occasional consumption of 'comfort food' would be a difficult proposition even at the best of times. From 1911 to 1939 the Minnesota based magazine 'The Farmer's Wife' focused on the lives of hard-working rural women and offered its readers sound advice for carrying out their various farm and household tasks -- including the feeding of their families. Now more than 300 of the very best and most popular of those recipes have been compiled and edited by Lela Nargi in a spiral bound cookbook (allowing it to rest openly on a kitchen counter or table) allowing modern home-makers to replicate the meals that graced the dining tables of their grandmothers. After an informative chapter on 'How To Use This Book--Read This First' and 'A Few Basics', the recipes are organized into chapters specific to Light Fare - Sandwiches and Snacks; Soups; Egg Dishes; Cheese Dishes; Noodles and Rice; Stews and Casseroles; Meat and Fish; Vegetables; Sweets; and Drinks'. An Index allows for the quick and easy location of individual recipes and menu building. With occasional black-and-white illustrations from the original pages of the magazine, the menus and recipes range from Tomato Toast; Baked Creole Rice; Lemon Carrots; and Meat Pie; to Corn Pudding; Oven Fried Potatoes; Squash and Apple Casserole; and Honey Cheese Crumb Pie. One especially nice touch is that each recipe carries the date of the magazine issue in which it appeared. A thoroughly delightful volume for browsing, "The Farmer's Wife Comfort Food Cookbook" is an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal and community library kitchen cookbook collections!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good food doesn't have to be complicated..., April 8, 2008

By	TAB (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

Great cookbook! Simple recipes using basic equipment and techniques... nothing fancy, just easy "scratch" cooking.

The book itself is of high quality: front & back covers are solid with plastic spiral binding. The black and white layout is clear, with the recipes easily identifiable, and sprinkled throughout are vintage photos, drawings and articles... a real treat! The recipes are wonderfully simple, with common ingredients and a comfort-food appeal. I particularly love that all of the recipes are dated, identifying when they were published in The Farmer's Wife magazine between 1893-1939. Without doubt, this cookbook will become a staple reference.

The recipes, the refreshing simplicity, the overall book quality with vintage images and articles, and the old-fashioned/depression-era appeal of the back-to-basics home cooking makes this TOTALLY RECOMMENDED!

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift!, April 12, 2008

By	Srg - See all my reviews

A friend was given this cookbook for her birthday, and I immediately went home and ordered it for my sister for a hostess gift for Easter. She loves cookbooks and really enjoyed poring through it the next day while she rested up from all her hard work.