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| Log Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Swell
Publisher: Native Ground Music
Category: Book
List Price: $5.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 173220
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.2
ISBN: 1883206251
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781883206253
ASIN: 1883206251
Publication Date: January 15, 2008
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Product Description
Peppered with authentic 19th Century photograhs, this cookbook is smothered with old-timey recipes, kitchen proverbs, even a pinch of proper pioneer etiquette! Make-do cooking recipes include Leather Britches, Ash Cake and Portable Soup, using ingredients available to settlers 150 years ago! Other goodies: hand-dipped candle making, soup warnings, molasses taffy, faux foods, zucchini clarinet and ginger beer!
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 A mexican review April 6, 2008
This is a very nice book! You know, as a "Little house on the prairie" books and TV program fan, I really love this book! Photos are so nice and make me think in the hard days back in the west. It is #1 in my recipe book collection. By the way, recipes are very good with easy to follow directions.
 A good history but skip the recipes January 26, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
My brother received this book as a gift and he immediately passed it on to me. I'm a pretty good chef with about 300 recipes posted on Recipezaar where I have a 4.5 star overall rating.
I scanned the recipes in this work and there are quite a few incongruities in the ingredients for today's cooks -- yes, the historical information is interesting but unless you want to know how food tasted to our wilderness pioneers, get a regular cookbook for cooking. See my listmania list here:
http://www.amazon.com/Cookbooks-for-people-who-actually-cook/lm/R1IWR4OCMF18FF/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full
I made two of the recipes, just to satisfy myself that I wasn't being a know-it-all and, as I suspected, these dishes lack a great deal. One in particular, the baked beans, (which I had fostered some hopes for), were the worst baked beans I ever tasted, practically inedible.
So, this book makes for interesting reading but just don't try to use it unless you have a cast-iron stomach.
Log Cabin Cooking! June 12, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Log Cabin Cooking by Barbara Swell, a book about Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore, is a wonderful book that can be enjoyed by anybody. With only 64 pages it is amazingly full of recipes, food history, kitchen proverbs, dining etiquette, rhymes (designed to help you remember recipes) and even food insults. From wheat to corn, from meats to beverages, from how to make your butter yellow and how many ways to use corn (corn, corn, corn) this is a great read.
It only took me a day yet I wanted more. Just my luck I bought Secrets of The Great Old-Timey Cooks by the author at the same time at the same store.
With 19th century photos and drawings to add to the pioneer feeling of the book. Don't read it unless you plan to go out right afterwards to eat good, old fashion, country cooking!
A slender 65-page compendium of pioneer era recipes March 9, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
A slender 65-page compendium of pioneer era recipes, Log Cabin Cooking by Barbara Swell also offers tips on hearth cooking, food insults, pioneer dining etiquette, kitchen provers, cake superstitions, jump rope rhymes, and "Biscuit Sayings". Readers will learn how to make a "squashaphone" and "Make-Do Cooking". Enhanced with period photography, the recipes in this little gem of a cookbook range from Sour Dough Bread, to Dandelion Salad, to Poor Man's Pudding, to Dried Sweet Apple Schnitz. Also very highly recommended are two other old-time cookbooks by Barbara Swell: Take Two & Butter 'em While They're Hot!: Heirloom Recipes & Kitchen Wisdom (1883206324, $5.95) and Secrets Of The Great Old-timey Cookbooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom (1883206375, $5.95).
A Mountainman's point of view November 30, 1999
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is very good for the beginner in Early American cooking. I feel very sorry for people are afraid to try some of Barbara's recipes. The other things in her book are true to fact and most of them do work. I do E-A living demonstrations an this book will help me a lot. 3 thumbs up or what ever!
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