Children at the Hearth: 19th Century Cooking, Manners & Games
Children at the Hearth: 19th Century Cooking, Manners & Games
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Book Description
Eat your way back in time and enter the world of American children as they lived 150 years ago. Sample foods, folklore and games found in the parlors of the wealthy, the boarding houses of the working class, and the cabins on the western frontier. Includes over 60 vintage photos plus historic recipes like cathead biscuits, sugar plums and hobo mulligan stew. Learn to make snow candles and snow taffy, tell Appalachian ghost stories and play "roley hole" and "jack straws."
About the Author
Barbara Swell has been hanging around kitchens since she was old enough to eat! Growing up in West Virginia, she learned to cook country, Southern, and international foods from the older women in her family. Barbara lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina as a Child Counselor with her husband, Wayne, and their three children Annie, Wes and Rita. Other titles Barbara has written: Log Cabin Cooking and Take Two & Butter 'Em While They're Hot!
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