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                    Rural and Small Town Life and the History, Heritage and Humor of Scandinavian-Americans

            

Farmers' Market Favorites        by  Gooseberry Patch 

Over 200 recipes featuring homegrown products full of garden or farmers' market freshness are contained in this new cookbook.  Chapter titles are:  Sunny Starters, Farm Kitchen Snacks and Beverages, Summer-Thyme Sandwiches,  A Bushel Basket of Main Dishes, Sprouting Salads, Fresh Soups & Bountiful Breads, and Fresh Baked Desserts.

 Along with the recipes, the publisher has included lots of tips for the gardener or the market customer which include ideas that will make one a more savvy when shopping for bright red tomatoes, fresh-picked green beans, and big baskets of berries. Also included are tips for making or purchasing the vintage crafts which are also found at farmers' markets, and a handy conversion chart for the off-season when fresh ingredients are harder to find. 

 This 224-page cookbook is overflowing  with favorite homegrown recipes, and is packed it full of garden freshness.

 CK - 09     Spiral Bound; lays flat when open     $16.95

The Farmer's Wife Cookbooks

Serve up a piece of the past as you savor the flavor of farm kitchen cooking! Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmers Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find and share advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen.

All of the recipes in the following four cookbooks first appeared on the pages of The Farmer’s Wife magazine. The classic recipes in these cookbooks have been adapted for the needs of the modern kitchen, but they still preserve the flavor of a life dedicated to feeding not just the family, but also the nation.

All four have spiral binding allowing the books to lay flat when open.

The Farmer's Wife Harvest Cookbook      by Lela Nargi

This delightful and nostalgic cookbook includes over 300 Blue Ribbon recipes for feeding folks—and in some cases, a lot of folks—during the harvest months. Some of the recipes will help you put together a simple, informal hot meal for friends and family; others will help you figure out what to do with your own garden and farmer’s market bounty; and still others will help you solve the riddle of what to bring along to, or even cook over an open flame.

CK - 08     Spiral Bound    $14.95     NOW $13.95

 

The Farmer's Wife Cookie Cookbook       by  Lela Nargi

Nothing evokes the charms of the country kitchen like the smell of freshly baked cookies. Well, maybe the taste of them is better! With the 250-plus recipes in this cookbook, you’ll be able to recreate the best-loved cookies and bars ever to come from those old kitchens and make an old-fashioned special occasion out of every coffee break or church social, picnic, after-school treat, or bedtime snack.  Hey, Lutherans … You might find some different recipes for our favorite standby: Lutheran Church Basement Bars!

CK - 12     Spiral Bound    $12.95

Glædelig Jul: A Danish Cristmas Recipe Book    by Dagmarette Yen

This beautiful Danish recipe book was released less than two months ago by first time author, Dagmarette Yen. This book will make a lovely holiday gift and because of its recent release, chances are unlikely that your friends or family will have this. 

According to her bio, Dagmarette "spent her childhood atop the kitchen counter" where she learned the same cooking skills that her mother, who came to America from Denmark at age 18, learned from her grandmother.

In compiling this "art cookbook," Dagmarette has taken the best of the customs, rituals and recipes from her mother's Danish relatives and placed them in a lovely, colorful work of art that reflects the artistic skills she learned from her Chinese father.

Unlike common cookbooks that have recipes for many foods divided into categories such as appetizers, beverages, etc., this 50-page book's focus is on Christmas foods only, and the chapters are separated into Night Before, Juleaften (or Christmas Eve), and Julebord, the Christmas table or Christmas spread. It is Dagmarette's intention to preserve and share the holiday traditions that her family treasures when they gather "for the grandest feast of the year." She has achieved this goal already by making this new marvelous work available. 

CK - 06      Hardcover      $24.95

 

 
 

Our Beloved Sweden  by Janet Letnes Martin & Ilene Letnes Lorenz

This beautiful cookbook, written by Janet Letnes Martin and her sister, Ilene Letnes Lorenz, and translated and edited by Suzann Nelson, is truly an art book.  It contains wonderful Dala paintings along with great immigrant recipes submitted by individuals and churches in the Midwest.  It also contains sections on Swedish American church life, Swedish festivals and black and white sketches of all the Swedish provincial flowers.

SE 3 - 01  Paperback  $19.95

Lutheran Church Basement Women: Lutefisk, Lefse, Lunch and Jell-O  by Janet Letnes Martin and Allen Todnem

A humor cookbook with all your favorite church basement recipes supplemented with short stories, theories and great pictures of your aunts and their neighbors.  If you don't feel like cooking, just sit down, read this book, laugh right out loud, and order out!

MH 1 - 03   Paperback   $14.95  


The Finnish Cookbook by Beatrice A. Ojakangas

First published in 1964, this cookbook — called "Finland's best-selling cookbook adapted for American kitchens" — is in its 23rd printing. As part of the Crown Classic Cookbook Series, a set of publications featuring the world's best-loved international cookbooks, it is specially adapted for use in American kitchens. To make things less frustrating for the American cook, the measurements are given in U.S. Customary Units rather than metric, and recipes are listed by both their English and Finnish names.  

Ojakangas, who has been called the "queen of recipe books," is an author and chef in Duluth, MN, and has written more than a dozen cookbooks. Along with recipes for specialties such as Karelian Rice Piirakkaa (thin oval-shaped pies filled with either rice or mashed potatoes), Rovastinpipparkakut (Bishop's pepper cookies), spinach pancakes, fish in a crust, and the Finnish Smorgasbord, the author has included recipes from both country and city, full sample menus, and gives the cultural background for many of the dishes — especially ones for holiday events. 

Ojakangas includes relevant and interesting tidbits about the land and its people, background information invaluable to anyone who wants to know more about Finland and Finnish cooking, and she shares memories she attaches to some of these hearty foods from the Land of the Midnight Sun. 

CK - 04 Hardcover $17.95