Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom

by Barbara Swell

Book Overview

Reminisce about a simpler time as four 20th century mountain pioneer women share their cooking secrets. These great old-time cooks stir in their own wisdom and tales of growing up on rural farms,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883206375
• ISBN13: 9781883206376
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Native Ground Music
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Recipes, Lore and Wisdom

Secrets of The Great Old-Timey Cooks by Barbara Swell is full of information about food such as Mock Macaroni, Jam Windmills, Apple Maple Duck and Apple Dumpling Pie. It also holds photos, proverbs, remedies, weather lore and kitchen secrets. This kind of book is not just a wonderful piece of the past but fun to read. Good for any library dealing with history or food.

An ideal and inexpensive gift

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"!