Farmer's Wife Comfort Food Cookbook: Over 300 blue-ribbon recipes! - Softcover

Lela Nargi

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9780760329245: Farmer's Wife Comfort Food Cookbook: Over 300 blue-ribbon recipes!

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760329249 ISBN 13: 9780760329245

Publisher: Motorbooks International, 2008

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Step back into grandma's kitchen, circa 1893. Farm cooking was a tough job, but the results of that labor were completely satisfying: hearty, delicious meals that re-energized tired muscles and warmed the soul. "The Farmer s Wife Cookbook" brings together more than 400 easy-to-follow recipes and variations along with dozens of menus that originated in farm kitchens nationwide between 1893 and 1939. Readers will be able to prepare these meals easily and quickly, as the recipes have been updated to match the conveniences and ingredients of the modern kitchen. As much fun to browse through as it is to cook from, "The Farmer's Wife Cookbook" includes clips of original articles and artwork from "The Farmer's Wife" magazine. It also includes a guide to home canning and instructions for making jams, jellies, pickles, and relishes. Recipes range from drinks and appetizers to robust main dishes and mouth-watering desserts. Included are classic pot roasts, fun jellos, blue-ribbon breads, model potato salads, and old-fashioned pies and cakes. "The Farmer's Wife Cookbook" is sure to satisfy readers in search of the flavors of farm country or those simply on the lookout for a piece of home-baked nostalgia.

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Review:

In the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, "The Farmer's Wife" magazine was a staple in American homes, featuring timely topics of interest to rural women readers. Every issue showcased recipes and menus meant for farm kitchens, from the first issue in 1893 to the last issue in 1939. Now the best of those recipes and menus are reproduced in "The Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 400 Blue-Ribbon Recipes". Enhanced with clips of the magazine's original articles and artwork, "The Farmer's Wife Cookbook" also includes a guide to home canning and instructions for making jams, jellies, pickles, and relishes. Spiral bound and sturdy, "The Farmer's Wife Cookbook" has its recipes arranged in chapters dedicated to 'First Courses and Soups'; Beverages; Breads; Meats; Soups; Vegetables; 'Hot Supper Dishes'; Salads and Salad Dressings; Desserts and Candies; Cakes, Cookies, Doughnuts, Icings, Fillings and Dessert Sauces; Pastry and Pies; Jellies, Conserves and Jams; Pickles and Relishes. Offering nostalgic dining on farm family favorites, "The Farmer's Wife Cookbook" is thoroughly 'kitchen friendly' for modern cooks and a useful, entertaining and inspired addition to personal and community library cookbook collections. --Midwest Book Review

I wanted to learn how to cook meals my food-loving family could swallow and that I could attempt to learn without losing my mind. Living in the south, I looked and looked for cookbooks that included blue-ribbon recipes for meats and also make vegatables seem to taste better then they really do. Then, low and behold I found the "The Farmers Wife Cookbook." It is just what Grandma would have used in her day! It is also simple and easy (two words every new cook loves). It shows the new cook why appetizers make a meal more enjoyable and that there is a "perfect dressing for every salad"! Things every one loves to eat are in this book. The recipes are borken down in easy to follow steps that even I could understand. You'll be making Waldorf Salad on Monday and by Friday why not have some Angel Cream Pie or Delicious Doughnuts?! Buy this! You will love it! And those you cook for will love you and your cooking! --A Little

This book is not only comfort food for the stomach, but for the eyes and soul as well. When I think of life on the farm I instantly picture a scene from a Norman Rockwell's painting. The simple life, grandma with her big apron on, putting up preserves; delicious smells of home-made bread comming from the kitchen's wood cooking stove. I envision a grandma who's cheeks are flushed like rosey apples, and smiling eyes that sparkle as she's humming a tune. Think country fairs; tables laden with prize winning preserves, pies, and cakes. Children running between the prized quilts, chasing a goose. The smells, sounds and activities at the fair are simple pleasures and anticipated by country folk every autumn after harvest-time. If you want to experience the next best thing to being on a farm, read this book. You'll want to experience home cooking from scratch. You'll get the urge to immerse yourself up to your elbows in dough, kneading it into loaves of aromatic bread, or buying bushels of fresh fruit and vegetables from the market so you can preserve them for the winter. Take a trip down to the farm today in this book. I know it will be used over and over again. The mouth-watering recipes will become favorites with your family and friends. --Petra Newman

From the Back Cover:

Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer’s Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find—and share—advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. During the 46 years the magazine was published the farmer’s wife was hard-working, thrifty, and highly-skilled in the kitchen. She was also a woman bent on nourishing her family, both body and soul; a woman with ready access to many of the ingredients we associate with comfort: butter, cheese, bacon—farm staples, all, along with eggs, fruits, and vegetables—and chocolate.
Comfort food is simple food—relatively easy to prepare, and not requiring sophisticated palates to enjoy. These dishes provide a sense of warmth, no matter the weather—warmth from stews and casseroles, and things roasted in the oven (although recipes for cool foods have been included in the pages of this book as well, because sometimes ice cream is a comfort, and so is lemonade). Adapted for the needs of the modern kitchen, these classic recipes offer readers a chance to recreate the favorite foods they remember from days gone by.

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