Lee P. (copiousreader) reviewed on 3/17/2015

A compendium of pioneer era recipes, Log Cabin Cooking by Barbara Swell also offers tips on hearth cooking, 1800's remedies, pioneer dining etiquette, kitchen provers, cake superstitions, jump rope rhymes, and "Biscuit Sayings". Readers will learn how to make a "squashaphone" and "Make-Do Cooking". Enhanced with period photography, the recipes in this little gem of a cookbook range from "Sour Dough Bread", to "Dandelion Salad", and from "Poor Man's Pudding", to "Dried Sweet Apple Schnitz" or "Fairy Cookies". Also included is a list of where you can buy heirloom seeds for the avid gardener.

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