Prairie Kitchen Sampler - Hardcover

Fritz, E. Mae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0962040401 ISBN 13: 9780962040405

Publisher: Prairie Winds Pr, 1988

Synopsis

Brand new, *first edition* out-of-print hardcover. *Autographed* copies available. Book was issued without a dust jacket. Hard copy edition has blue-and-white with bronze tea-leaf design on end pages.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Showing the same devotion to detail as her mother, prairie wife Alice Mickish Hendrickson, did when copying her first recipe for "Brown Stone Front Cake" into her notebook on August 7, 1922, daughter Fritz calls to mind her mother's cookstoves, iceboxes and recipes in this thorough but oddly distant memoir of life and times in rural Buffalo County, Neb. The 300 recipes for early-20th-century farm foods (e.g., baked beans) and details of cold-packing beef, for one, make the book a useful historic document. But Fritz's refashioning of her mother's memories into modern, prosaic sentences robs Hendrickson of an authentic voice. She also makes little effort to divine the larger meaning of Hendrickson's life; while full of recollection, the volume is not big on reflection. Whatever artistry Fritz displays comes from her immersion in minutiae--the proportion of flat to upright corn cobs in a basket of corn cob kindling, or the polishing of an enamel stove with waxed bread wrappers. Emotional moments arise not from the writing but from the unexpected recognition of forgotten phrases on the page--"White House Cake," "Never-Fail Chocolate Frosting."
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Edition details

• Publisher: Prairie Winds Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962040401
• ISBN 13: 9780962040405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 431