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

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An ideal and inexpensive gift for kitchen cookbook collectors, Barbara Swell's "Secrets Of The Great Old-Timey Cooks" is a simply wonderful compendium of historic American recipes, folklore and country wisdom. Profusely illustrated with historic photos and illustrations, readers will be treated to mouth-watering 'yesteryear cuisine' ranging from Mock Macaroni, Sweet Potato Dumplings, and Jam Windmills, to Apple Maple Duck, Coconut Stack Cake, and Apple Dumpling Pie. But "Secrets Of The Great Old-Timey Cooks" is far more than just another nostalgic cookbook. Readers are also provided with kitchen secrets from contemporary pioneer women, antique autograph rhymes, food provers and superstitions, love vine prediction, folk remedies, the kinds of chores women routinely had to do, and even weather lore. If you like to cook, have a fondness for 'the good old days', and are partial to some of the best eating former generations of accomplished women cooks had to offer, then secure your very own copy of "Secrets Of The Great Old-Timey Cooks"!

Secrets of The Great Old-Timey Cooks by Barbara Swell is full of information about food such as Mock Macaroni, Jam Windmills, Apple Maple Duck and Apple Dumpling Pie. It also holds photos, proverbs, remedies, weather lore and kitchen secrets. This kind of book is not just a wonderful piece of the past but fun to read. Good for any library dealing with history or food.

This is a very entertianing, informative little book. I got it for my nephew who is a budding cook. He was thrilled to learn how the "old folks" did things and had a wonderful time trying out the recipes. He was especially entertained by the measurements and had to ask his Auntie how big a walnut was! I would recommend this book for any cook but particularly for young cooks just starting out. It brings a great piece of history into the present.

The small 72 page book is full of old time wisdom and recipes. Pictures from the past combined with stories of the simple life will bring smiles to a mundane day. Although I'm not as old as the people in the book, somethings never change. I remember our next door neighbour kill a chicken on a Saturday so they could have it for Sunday dinner. I've had the pleasure of scrubbing clothes on a scrub board and milk a goat. I've known people just like the ones in the book; it brings back memories of long ago.

This small book is sure to bring a chuckle or two to some old timers and young people alike.

Do you remember how back in the old days great grandmother spent hours in the kitchen and it always smelled good. This book tells all the secrets of how to do it yourself. Such as make your own beef and chicken seasoning. How to make a good pie crust. This book will tell you how people survived in the great depression with very little to choose from in their cupboards. Allot of lost cooking art and techniques are found in this book. I have tried some of the recipes in it. They are great. And the book is cheap.

This along with her other books provide a light and quick read to all those interested in history and cooking as i am. Buy all her books together, it will save on postage and they are so short you will finish one in a few hours.
The section on Mock foods during the depression was interesting and gross all at the same time.
i wouldnt waste my money again, so find something better on the market.

"Secrets of the Great Old_Timey cooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom" I was disappointed in the size of the book and definitely the cost of postage for such a small book.