MUSBUK-13
 

The 1st American Cookie Lady
This book 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 adoptions for the modem kitchen, vintage graphics and photos, World War I food shortage recipes, plus curiosities of cookie baking history. 6 x 9, 152 pages. For those wanting a look at Anna’s original cookie diary, the manuscript is available on CD upon request.
$12.95

MUSBK-009

The Lost Art of Pie Making$5.95
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. Rum Bittersweet Chocolate and more.

 Lincoln's Table
A new book by Donna D. McCreary (Signed Copy)
Victorian Recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to the white house. Donna has been a First Person Living Historian presenting Mary Todd Lincoln for many years. Her many years of research will help make your Lincoln Day's programs something very Special  
                            $24.95  (Signed Copy)

MUSBK-006

Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks $5.95
Reminisce about a simpler time as four 20th century mountain pioneer women share their cooking secrets. These great old-timey cooks stir in their own wisdom and tales growing up on rural farms, where they prepared delicious meals by lantern light on wood cookstoves. Included are heirloom recipes, proverbs, folk remedies, 80 vintage photos, 19th century autograph rhymes and lots of stories.
 

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$5.95

Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking $5.95
Old-Fashioned, farm-fresh comfort food! 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 cook stove 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 wholesale 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 ½ x 8 ½, 72 pages.
 

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$5.95
MUSBK-012

Mama's in the Kitchen$5.95
NOSTALGIA! Here are the stories and recipes of our mothers and grandmothers as they cooked their way through two world wars, food shortages, and the Great Depression. This lively and witty book chronicles how household gadgets dramatically changed the lives of women forever. It takes you into the kitchens of young housewives who whipped up cherry chiffon pies and weird little sandwiches to the beat of big band swing tunes playing on the radio. Lured by glossy product advertisements, these women were seduced into thinking that a green wiggly dessert would add glamour and romance to their lives. This book takes both a serious and a humorous look at women in a changing world. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", 72 pages.

$5.95
MUSBK-004 

Children at the Hearth
Eat your way back in time and enter the world of American children as they lived 150 years ago. Sample foods, folklore and games found in the parlors of the wealthy, the boarding houses of the working class, and the cabins on the western frontier. Includes over 60 vintage photos plus historic recipes like cathead biscuits, sugar plums and hobo mulligan stew. Learn to make snow candles and snow taffy, tell Appalachian ghost stories and play roley hole and jack straws.  
8½" x 11½", 72 pages.

MUSBK-005

Take Two & Butter'Em While They're Hot!  $5.95
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-timey home remedies, vintage photos, romance superstitions, hearth crafts and 19th century chores.
8½" x 5½"   72 pages.

Over 100,000 Copies Sold

Peppered with authentic 19th Century photographs, this NEW 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 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! 8½" x 5½", 64 pages.
         $5.95 Plus shipping and handling

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