The Midwestern Country Cookbook : Recipes and Remembrances from a Traditional Farmhouse

Rating:
Summary: Delicious memories
Review: This beautifully written book is a real find and I hope someone restores it to print. Kluger weaves together recollections of her childhood on an Indiana farm in the 1930s with the recipes for the dishes she grew up eating. Every page is filled with affection that feels genuine, never cloying. The recipes are outstanding and will remind many people of food they, or their parents, ate. (Chess pie, buttermilk biscuits, real preserves, etc.) This book is also a good reminder of a time when people not only made do with what they could grow or build themselves, they also turned what people today might think of as hardships into occasions for joy.

Rating:
Summary: Delicious memories
Review: This beautifully written book is a real find and I hope someone restores it to print. Kluger weaves together recollections of her childhood on an Indiana farm in the 1930s with the recipes for the dishes she grew up eating. Every page is filled with affection that feels genuine, never cloying. The recipes are outstanding and will remind many people of food they, or their parents, ate. (Chess pie, buttermilk biscuits, real preserves, etc.) This book is also a good reminder of a time when people not only made do with what they could grow or build themselves, they also turned what people today might think of as hardships into occasions for joy.