Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks

Cook your heart out with generations of hand-me-down recipes and food lore! Barbara Swell has whisked up weather and cooking folklore, food insults, old-time home remedies, vintage photos, romance superstitions, hearth crafts and 19th century chores. 5 ? x 8 ? , 72 pages. $5.95. For more information and ordering, visit http://www.nativeground.com/kitchen.asp

Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking

Climb down off your tractor and dig into some old-fashioned, farm-fresh comfort food! We?ve got cranberry beef stew simmering on the old wood cookstove and some sweet corn just pulled off the stalks. Try a dab of this farm-churned golden butter on the orange rye bread still warm from the oven. Whether you?re a born farmer, or a country-minded city person, you?ll enjoy these creative rural American recipes from a time when the food was wholesome and life was full of fresh air and sunshine. These recipes, stores, jokes, advice, farm lore, and illustrations were collected from a wide variety of American agricultural sources from the 1880s to the 1950s. 5 ? x 8 ? , 72 pages. $5.95. For more information and ordering, visit http://www.nativeground.com/kitchen.asp

Lost Art of Pie Making

Come home to pie! This witty and fun book shows you how to make a darn good pie in a jiffy. You?ll feel like you?re back in your grandma?s kitchen as she shows you how she rolls out her flaky, tender pie crust. Recipes date from 1831, many from 19th century handwritten cooking journals. Includes old-time pie lore, pie insults, why men love pie, pie contest tips, vintage photos, historic recipes, and more. Make pies like Rum Bittersweet Chocolate, Vanilla crumb, Apple/Pear Mince, Sour Cherry Amaretto, Fresh Raspberry, Louisiana Peanut, as well as quick flip pies, dumplings and crisps. 5 ? x 8 ?, 72 pages. $5.95. For more information and ordering, visit http://www.nativeground.com/kitchen.asp

1st American Cookie Lady

The 1st American Cookie Lady is based on a fascinating mystery. In 1917, Anna "Cookie" Covington set out to record all her favorite cookie recipes as a gift to her daughter because no published cookie recipe books existed at that time. Strangely, her 76 page handwritten personal cooking diary was never delivered to her daughter as planned. 88 years later, the unused diary fell into the hands of food historian Barbara Swell, who recognized it as perhaps the earliest collection of American cookie recipes, dating from the mid 1880s up through World War I. The 1st American Cookie Lady includes Anna's 221 recipes recorded from 1917-1920 along with adaptations for the modern kitchen, vintage graphics and photos, World War I food shortage recipes, plus curiosities of cookie baking history. 6" x 9", 152 pages. $12.95. For more information and ordering, visit http://www.nativeground.com/kitchen.asp

Log Cabin Cooking

Peppered with authentic 19th century photographs, this popular cookbook is smothered with old-time recipes, kitchen proverbs, even a pinch of proper pioneer etiquette! Make-do recipes include Leather Britches, Ash Cake and Portable Soup, using the ingredients available to settlers 150 years ago! Other goodies: hand-dipped candle making, soup warnings, molasses taffy, faux foods, zucchini clarinet and ginger beer! 5 ? x 8 ? , 64 pages. $5.95. For more info and ordering, visit http://www.nativeground.com/kitchen.asp