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The Little House Cookbook: New Full-Color Edition

Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories
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The Little House Cookbook: New Full-Color Edition by Barbara M Walker offers readers a delightful journey through the culinary traditions depicted in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved children's series. This cookbook provides authentic recipes inspired by the food and methods described in the "Little House" books, accompanied by historical context and vibrant colour illustrations. With a combination of historical detail and practical instructions, it invites readers of all ages to experience and recreate pioneer-era dishes.
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Format: Hardback
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This delightful cookbook provides a unique culinary journey through the charming world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. You might enjoy it if you're interested in historical cooking, appreciate vivid descriptions of pioneering times, or want to try your hand at traditional recipes inspired by classic children's stories.

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This gorgeous new edition of the award-winning cookbook features full-color photographs, classic illustrations, and more than 100 of the recipes that Wilder chronicled in her classic Little House books. Full color.

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A gorgeous new hardcover edition of the award-winning cookbook, featuring full-colour photographs, classic illustrations, and more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicled in her classic Little House books.

A great gift for Little House fans and anyone who wants to learn what life on the prairie was really like.

With this visually stunning cookbook, you can learn how to make classic frontier dishes like corn dodgers, mincemeat pie, cracklings, and pulled molasses candy in your own modern kitchen.

The book also includes excerpts from the beloved Little House series, fascinating and thoroughly researched historical context, and details about the cooking methods that pioneers like Ma Ingalls used. It features illustrations by beloved artist Garth Williams and full-colour photographs by Kathryn Elsesser, with food and prop styling by Ellen Jackson.

This is a chance to dive into the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American pioneer, women's club member, and farm homesteader.

This book has been widely praised and is the winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The Horn Book praised it as "a culinary and literary feast."

Series: Little House Nonfiction

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The Little House Cookbook: New Full-Color Edition is praised for being more than just a recipe collection; it serves as a social history that complements the spirit of the Wilder books with great care and affection. Reviewers describe it as both a culinary and literary delight.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780062470799

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Garth Williams
  • Illustrated by Garth Williams
  • Illustrated by Garth Williams

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1039g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Garth Williams's classic illustrations for the Little House books caused Laura to remark that she "and her folks live again in these pictures." Garth Williams also illustrated Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and almost one hundred other books.

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