Farmer's Wife Cookbook

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. One of the magazine's most popular offerings was advice on cooking and baking, providing farm family recipes for making everything from basic bread to nourishing stews and delicious desserts. The Best of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook brings together 400 easy-to-follow recipes and variations along with dozens of menus that originated in farm kitchens nationwide and appeared on the pages of the magazine between 1893 and 1939. Readers will be able to prepare these foods easily and quickly, because the recipes have been updated to match the conveniences and ingredients of the modern kitchen. The Best of 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 homegrown nostalgia. Here's a sampling of the recipes you'll find inside: Macaroni and Cheese Pie Southern Fried Chicken Fried Green Tomatoes Rhubarb Brown Betty Scotch Shortbread Gingerbread Banana Shortcake Spiced Oatmeal Cookies Michigan Cherry Pie Apple Plum Jam English Orange Marmalade Pear Honey Corn Chowder Swedish Meatballs Sour Milk Griddle Cakes Stuffed Sweet Potatoes Cherry Batter Pudding

Another addition to the popular Farmer's Wife series, The Farmer's Wife Harvest Cookbook includes over 300 recipes for feeding folks-and in some cases, a lot of folks-during the harvest months. Some of the recipes will help you put together a simple, informal hot meal for friends and family; others will help you figure out what to do with your own garden and farmer's market bounty; and still others will help you solve the riddle of what to bring along to, or even cook over an open flame. All recipes first appeared on the pages of The Farmer's Wife magazine and have been updated for use in modern kitchens.

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.

The early twentieth-century world of The Farmer's Wife may be vastly different than our own hectic, high-tech times, but some things never change-like a taste for the kind of food that's cooked all day, the long-simmered stews and chilis, pot roasts and soups and puddings that savor of comfort and care. Culled from the pages of The Farmer's Wife and adapted for contemporary lifestyles and kitchenware, these recipes help today's cook recapture the full rich flavor of slow-cooked food steeped in the traditions of America's heartland. With a modicum of preparation in the morning or even the night before, anyone can come home to the kind of meals that yesterday's farmer's wife prepared; the slow-cooked beans and barbeque, casseroles, and hot dishes that could serve a few friends, a big hungry family, or a whole community. For party dishes that let a host focus on guests; for meals that won't heat up the summer kitchen; for hearty, delicious fare to satisfy gatherings big and small with leftovers to store for later meals, these slow-cooker recipes are the perfect time-wise, money-saving way to dish up a great helping of farmland history.