Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking: Rural America Recipes & Farm Lore

by Barbara Swell

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.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, History, Food, American

72 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

Reviews

[Patricia]

Loved the history

Filled with allot of good old fashioned recipes and tidbits. An interesting read for sure! I plan on sharing this with my mom and sister!

[Pat]

Wonderful window on the past!

Having grown up in a large city, visits to elderly relatives in a traditional farmhouse were a treat. Several rickety barns housed the pigs, cows and hens that would supply eggs and milk and, in turn, become diner. This book was a great reminder of those days! The recipes I tried turned out tasty and wholesome, even using healthier vegetable oil instead of lard and fresh or frozen veggies since my urban house doesn't have space for a garden. The jokes, while corny, were entertaining.😃

[Linda Garland]

This book is very entertaining. I enjoyed reading about how things were in our history that many don't know about or forgotten. I love reading and hearing how things were in days of old. Good recipes too.

[T]

While there aren’t as many recipes as I was anticipating, this book was still a fascinating peek into historic cooking and life in general. What recipes that are included appear easy enough to make and have a down home, nostalgic quality to them.

[aimee]

I love cookbooks

This one had life advice from the eras, updates for the recipes and was a smooth read. I was impressed.

[Jacqueline Goad]

Not many recipes

Nothing good read here. Need more recipes. Not worth the read I don't have anything more to give here. Goodbye

[Lorie]

This book has some old recipes with updated info. I probably won't make any of the recipes but some of the stories and notes were cute.

[Carol Austin]

Lots of Witticisms

I enjoyed the farmer witticisms and not so much the recipes. They were difficult to follow by today’s modern standards.

[Lisa Mongo]

Cute recipes are not what I wanted, but I am sure that someone who maybe never cooks would like it

[Pam]

I loved this little cookbook!We have a 1900's Woodburning Cookstove in our Breakfast area here at the Hilltop Farm.I wanted to know the history behind how women cooked on the stoves & the recipes.It was a cute book with lots of how to's!

[Sasha]

Old-fashioned fun! Hearty recipes and hilarious anectdotes. Ah, the good ol' days.

[Fredrick Danysh]

A look at the basic food and cookery of an earlier time in American when most people lived on farms and had simpler tastes in foods.

[Cynthia L]

Vintage

Cookbooks such as this are also history lessons. A great book for anybody who wants to learn fundamental common sense cooking skills.