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The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories Paperback - 1989 - 3rd Edition

by Barbara M. Walker; Garth Williams (Illustrator)

From daily bread to a full-course Christmas dinner, here are more than 100 recipes introducing the foods and cooking of Laura Ingalls Wilder's pioneer childhood and that of her husband's boyhood on a dairy farm.


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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. 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."

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More than 100 recipes introduce the foods and cooking of Laura Ingalls Wilder's pioneer childhood, chronicled in her classic Little House books.

Notable Children's Books of 1979 (ALA)
Best Books of 1979 (SLJ)
Notable 1979 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Children's Books of 1979 (Library of Congress)
1980 Western Heritage Award

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  • Title The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories
  • Author Barbara M. Walker; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 3rd
  • Edition 3
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-09-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780064460903 / 0064460908
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 7.06 x 0.65 in (22.83 x 17.93 x 1.65 cm)
  • Ages 08 to UP years
  • Grade levels 3 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Secular
    • Topical: Home School
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life, Wilder, Laura Ingalls
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 76058733
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.597

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1995, Page 122
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/09/1989, Page 0
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