| Hearts & Homes: How Creative Cooks Fed the Soul and Spirit of America's Heartland, 1895-1939 Contributor(s): Eighmey, Rae Katherine (Compiled by) |
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ISBN: 0972055215 ISBN-13: 9780972055215 Publisher: Farm Progress Companies OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2007 Annotation: If you liked Rae's earlier book, A Prairie Kitchen, you'll find another equally delightful slice of history in Hearts and Homes. Her research into the foods, families and lifestyles of the people who farmed the Heartland from 1895-1939 makes for a fascinating mixture. You'll find delicious recipes (just like Grandma used to make!) plus gain new inspiration from the challenges these dedicated cooks faced in feeding their families during the scarcity of the war years and the Great Depression. Developing recipes and sharing the results has been a lifelong vocation for Rae Katherine Eighmey. Today her kitchen library has thousands of recipes from 19th and 20th century cookbooks and pioneers' journals and magazines. It is her goal to make them easy for today's cooks to make in their own kitchens, and she has adapted hundreds of them for modern cooking methods. She says translating these recipes is part detective story, part chemistry and part old-fashioned cooking skill. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - American - Middle Western States - Cooking | History |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 7.14" W x 9.9" (1.13 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawn from the long-running Wallaces' Farmer magazine, this cookbook and advice manual shows how creative home cooks fed the soul and spirit of America's heartland from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II. In this guide, surprisingly useful to cooks today, are treasured family recipes and helpful hints on cooking the way your grandmother's mother taught her. Along with these classic dishes are long-forgotten tips on the "domestic arts"--like how to substitute for a missing ingredient or how to stop your party-line neighbor from "Eavesdropping over the Telephone." |