The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories

My only issue with the book is how it's printed and bound because I prefer cookbooks on better quality paper with a binding that can handle use in the kitchen. That said, it wasn't enough to make it 4 stars. Maybe 4.5, I rounded up. The recipes are well laid out with a lot of history. It makes an excellent tool of discussion and education with students who are reading the series or families who enjoy watching re-runs of the tv show. Some of the recipes don't adapt well to things you can easily get at the supermarket, but just reading those recipes is fun and modern cooks will find the difference in technique and ingredients very interesting. We are so used to being able to get so many alternative ingredients, to having 50 kinds of oil to choose from at the grocery store, that just the use of salt pork or bacon in so many common dishes is a good conversation. Being able to discuss cooking methods, economical measures, and working with what was available are all good things to explore with your children. I got it as a way of encouraging my daughter to read the original series. It's hard getting her interested in novels sometimes, but she loves cookbooks and historical recipes. Using it that way has worked, she's been slowly going through the series and enjoying it. Highly recommended for fans of the show or the books obviously, but also a good resource for people who enjoy reenacting history. Many of the recipes are accurate for the Civil War Era.

Incredibly cute cookbook. Recipes for foods that were mentioned in the books and the author goes into details from the time eat. Perfect for Little House on the Prairie fans.

Very good book. I initially thought there would be more illustrations, but I ended up enjoying the book anyways. I find the lack of clear cut, detailed illustrations help the reader (children especially) comprehend the recipes, use imagery for the Little House book excerpts, and focus more on accurately creating the finished product. You simply cannot "look" and create, but must truly focus on the reading material. The reading is fairly simple, laid out in plain text format. Each recipe lists the name, the excerpt from the original Little House books including Farmer Boy during which said recipe was mentioned, the ingredients and instructions. I appreciate how the author introduces herself and her inspiration for creating The Little House Cookbook and the great lengths she went to to accurately piece together recipes from the Frontier time era and her source credits. The recipes call for mostly staple items so most of them will be pretty easy to acquire (e.g., flour, sugar, butter, cream, eggs). However, some of the wild game recipes may be very difficult if not impossible to acquire ingredients for (e.g., fowl, roasted pig, starlings). Still, it's a good read and will come in handy for treats for friends and family. Already I have friends who are yearning for some of the dessert and bread recipes!

Grew up with the TV show and the books. The recipes in the book are great. Easy to prepare the food with detailed information and instructions. Would recommend.

Don't get me wrong, I plan to love this book a lot more when I have a daughter of my own who will (hopefully) be as enchanted with the Little House series as I was and still am. I vividly remember all the scenes involving food in the books and how much rich detail Wilder put into each description. As a very young cooking enthusiast with a runaway imagination, I saw myself plucking chickens and running around in calico trying to find a place in the taffy pull. For these reasons, I practically grabbed the book from one of my eight-year-old students' hands when she showed her library copy of it to me. I loved the pictures, the story excerpts, the idea that someone was dedicated enough to do the research and find out as much as she could about how the Wilders and the Ingallses created these unique and hearty meals. It serves as a fantastic book to curl up with and picture yourself turning a spit or making a savory pie with blackbirds (erm..), but it doesn't inspire me to get off the couch and turn a spit, or rather, construct some kind of spit-like apparatus in my kitchen. Maybe farther down the road I'll have the room in my apartment and time in my life to devote the effort to this book that it deserves. It is a treasure to me, but you won't find its recipes on my table. I know for a fact, however, that if my mother had owned it when I was a little girl, we would have done all we could to make these authentic meals. If only Barbara M. Walker would put out a "Little House for the Little Apartment" cookbook companion.

I love the snippets that were included in this book. I grew up reading the Little House Books so those snippets really made the cookbook fun and unique. A fun book to add to my cookbook collection. I did buy a used copy. It arrived in excellent conditions with no writing in it or visible damage. I was happily surprised by this.

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It was very very good and interesting. I loved the way it demonstrated the differences between cooking methods, produce e.t.c.then and now.

I grew up reading Little House on The Praire so I was excited when my niece showed interest in learning more about the serious. I would caution that this book is not for the common, everyday cook. Many of the recipes are from the days when shelf ingredients did not exist so my niece and I struggled to find some of the older items that were required in the recipe. However, the book did allow her to see how uncomplicated and process food once was and why it took so much time and love to create. It is a great book for the adventurous cook in your life. Just be prepared to substitute for some of the recipes.

J'aime beaucoup ce livre.Je n'ai pas encore traduit les textes et les recettes mais j'ai retrouvé toutes les recettes racontées dans la collections de "La petite maison dans la prairie" . Les illustrations dessinées par Garth Williams,c'était lui qui avait également illustré la série,rende nostalgique. Après la traduction je les testerai.Ce qui est bien c'est que ces recettes ne demandent pas beaucoup d'ingrédients ,ceux-ci sont faciles à trouver dans les épiceries anglaises,d'autres qu'on possède déjà dans ses réserves.Ce sont des ingrédients basiques Les cuissons sont plus rapides dans les fours actuels que dans les cuisinières au bois ou à charbon de nos grand-mères pour les plats. Et contrairement à ce que l'on pense,ils préparaient beaucoup de confiseries,(par exemple ; à base de maïs soufflés (pop-corn)). Je suis très contente d'avoir acheté ce livre!