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The Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. Walker

The Little House Cookbook

Frontier Foods From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories

Barbara M. Walker

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 7, 1989

This award-winning cookbook features more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicles in her classic Little House books.

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Who it’s for
Recipes, story excerpts, and historical context bring frontier cooking into focus.
Themes
Frontier cooking, Pioneer life, Historical context
Genres
Kids' Cooking, 19th Century U.S., Biographies of Women for Kids

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About this book

This award-winning cookbook features more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicles in her classic Little House books. A great gift for Little House fans and anyone who wants more information about what life on the prairie was really like. With this cookbook, you can learn how to make classic frontier dishes like corn dodgers, mincemeat pie, cracklings, and pulled molasses candy.

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The book also includes excerpts from the Little House books, fascinating and thoroughly researched historical context, and details about the cooking methods that pioneers like Ma Ingalls used, as well as illustrations by beloved artist Garth Williams. 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."

Prairie, at the Table

Recipes, story excerpts, and historical context bring frontier cooking into focus.

Come here for

  • More than 100 dishes drawn from the Little House books
  • A closer look at pioneer cooking methods and ingredients

Expect

  • Recipes alongside excerpts and researched historical context
  • Illustrations by Garth Williams

Where it sits

Kids' Cooking97%
19th Century U.S.91%
Biographies of Women for Kids29%

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Publisher categories

  • Writers' Lives for Kids
  • Biographies of Women for Kids
  • Kids' Cooking
  • Parents & Parenting
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  • Kids' Gardening
  • Girls & Young Women
  • 19th Century U.S.
  • House & Home
Authors
Barbara M. Walker
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
September 7, 1989
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Frontier cooking · Pioneer life · Historical context
Reading lane
Writers' Lives for Kids