Farmer's Wife Baking Cookbook More Than 300 Blue Ribbon Recipes

Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer’s Wifemagazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find-and share-advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. One of the magazine’s most popular offerings was advice on baking, providing farm family recipes for making everything from basic bread to much-loved holiday desserts. The elaborate cakes and company pies, the dainties and muffins for club luncheons, the rich breads for a warming breakfast or a lunch-bucket sandwich, the profusion of pies for threshing parties, the specialties like Cornish Pasties and Danish Krandse-all are here, inviting readers everywhere to recreate the fragrant kitchens and delectable tastes of farm days gone by. Adapted for the needs of the modern kitchen, these classic recipes preserve the flavor of a life dedicated to feeding not just the family, but the nation. They offer readers nostalgia and the chance to bake in a tradition unmatched since the 1930s. Here’s a sampling of the recipes you’ll find inside: Scotch Shortbread Mrs. Laird’s Coveted Nut-Caramel Cake Gingerbread Banana Shortcake Shoe-Fly “Cake” Raisin Meringue Pie Gooseberry Tart Southern Apple Dumplings Hot Cross Buns Gashe Fig Whole Wheat Bread Mammy’s Corn Bread Parkin Popovers Tasty Ham PieNargi, Lela is the author of 'Farmer's Wife Baking Cookbook More Than 300 Blue Ribbon Recipes', published 2007 under ISBN 9780760329238 and ISBN 0760329230.