Prairie Kitchen Sampler

by E. Mae Fritz

Book Overview

Brand new, *first edition* out-of-print hardcover. *Autographed* copies available. Book was issued without a dust jacket. Hard copy edition has blue-and-white with bronze tea-leaf design on end pages. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962040401
• ISBN13: 9780962040405
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Prairie Winds Press
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding memoir and recipes--a must have

This delightful book, Prairie Kitchen Sampler,is a gem--part history, part cookbook. From the first page to the last you will be informed and entertained reading about times past in the American West. Ms. Fritz brings it home to the reader vividly and entertainingly, while preserving a part of the American past for future generations to know what life was like in that day and time. The drawings are excellent and help one to envision the author's vivid descriptions of that time and place. You will also be inspired to try the delicious recipes. This book would make an excellent gift for the history buff, the novice or experienced cook, and anyone who enjoys settling down to a good book. Ms. Fritz (and her mother on whose recipes the book is based) is to be congratulated for not only contributing to any aspiring or skilled cook's collection but also for preserving a bit of history which all too often becomes lost in our modern world. I LOVED this book.

My Favorite Cookbook / Memoir

It's always nice to run across a book that warms you to the cockles of your heart. I simply love this book for its coziness and return to it whenever in need of a pick-me-up. Miss Fritz is the type of person I would be proud to call "friend." I admire her resourcefulness, her cheery attitude, her devotion to home and family, all those values of the past that more of us should try to cultivate. The life of a prairie farmwife was hard but rewarding. Little common things brought great joy and this book will do the same for you. Plus the recipes are pretty good too.

I love this book!

One of my favorite "reading" cookbooks which also contains tasty recipes. Some of the recipes remind me of the ones my grandma used to make, and were lost after her death, so finding this cookbook has brought back happy memories. One of my favorite recipes in the books is for dumplings. The best I've ever made and eaten.Reading the book also gives me a deeper understanding of farm life and how people survived in the midwest. My husband grew up on a family ranch so this is a plus.

Wonderful stories and great recipes

This is an enchanting cookbook, full of stories from the author's mother about cooking in the 20, 30's and 40's. The recipes are easy to follow. Every one that I have tried has been delicious, family-pleasing, "real" food not gourmet stuff. This would be a great bridal gift. My girls will get their own copy when they leave home. A must for the collector!

A must-have addition to every kitchen!

A cookbook that actually reads like a story. Readers are taken back in time with the author and her mother as they share stories from the Nebraska prairie days. Packed full of recipes you'll have to try! This book paints vivid pictures of what life was once like...cooking on large, corncob stoves, stoking the fire to keep just the right consistency for making a cake. We have it easy with today's kitchen technology! This book would make a great bridal shower gift or just one to add to your kitchen shelf...