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Log Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore

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Log Cabin Cooking by Barbara Swell, a book about Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore, is a wonderful book that can be enjoyed by anybody. With only 64 pages it is amazingly full of recipes, food history, kitchen proverbs, dining etiquette, rhymes (designed to help you remember recipes) and even food insults. From wheat to corn, from meats to beverages, from how to make your butter yellow and how many ways to use corn (corn, corn, corn) this is a great read.
It only took me a day yet I wanted more. Just my luck I bought Secrets of The Great Old-Timey Cooks by the author at the same time at the same store.
With 19th century photos and drawings to add to the pioneer feeling of the book. Don't read it unless you plan to go out right afterwards to eat good, old fashion, country cooking!

This book is very good for the beginner in Early American cooking. I feel very sorry for people are afraid to try some of Barbara's recipes. The other things in her book are true to fact and most of them do work. I do E-A living demonstrations an this book will help me a lot. 3 thumbs up or what ever!

A slender 65-page compendium of pioneer era recipes, Log Cabin Cooking by Barbara Swell also offers tips on hearth cooking, food insults, pioneer dining etiquette, kitchen provers, cake superstitions, jump rope rhymes, and "Biscuit Sayings". Readers will learn how to make a "squashaphone" and "Make-Do Cooking". Enhanced with period photography, the recipes in this little gem of a cookbook range from Sour Dough Bread, to Dandelion Salad, to Poor Man's Pudding, to Dried Sweet Apple Schnitz. Also very highly recommended are two other old-time cookbooks by Barbara Swell: Take Two & Butter 'em While They're Hot!: Heirloom Recipes & Kitchen Wisdom (1883206324, $5.95) and Secrets Of The Great Old-timey Cookbooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom (1883206375, $5.95).

This is a very nice book! You know, as a "Little house on the prairie" books and TV program fan, I really love this book! Photos are so nice and make me think in the hard days back in the west. It is #1 in my recipe book collection. By the way, recipes are very good with easy to follow directions.

Living in a Log cabin in that era would have been intersting. This book informs you of how it was for them. Interesting ideas for cooking that i wouldnt have thought of.

Hubby gave this to me for Valentines day and I have made several recipes from it already. The recipes are converted to be used in an new oven or wood burning stove.

this is a great little book that i bought for a coworker's Santa Exchange. Fun tidbits, stories and sketches. If you are into pioneer history (we are in Oklahoma) and food, you will enjoy this. i went back and bought one for myself.

Full of great facts, photos, & recipes! I loved looking at the photos and reading the old sayings. I actually read this book in one sitting, front to back. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

Log Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes & Food LoreLove the old recipes and the added facts that are very interesting. Really gets you in touch with how the people lived then. Helps me with my re-enacting for the Civil War.

Make bread and biscuits the way your great great great grandmother did. Find out how she dried herbs and spices in the open air. And how she made her own chicken and beef dry seasoning from the broth. No more buying from the capitalists after you read this book and use it a few times. How about coffee gravy just to give you an example. The olden days grandmas new how to cook.