Secrets Of The Great Old-Timey Cooks.
Secrets Of The Great Old-Timey CooksBarbara Swell
Native Ground Books & Music
109 Bell Road, Asheville, NC 28805-1521
1883206375 $5.95 www.nativeground.com 1-800-752-2656
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"!
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| Title Annotation: | Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks: Historic Recipes, Lore and Wisdom |
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| Publication: | Internet Bookwatch |
| Article Type: | Book review |
| Date: | Oct 1, 2006 |
| Words: | 186 |
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