Prairie Kitchen Sampler

431 pages. Index. Illustrated. Map of Buffalo County, Nebraska. Slight slant, otherwise a clean copy. “Prairie Kitchen Sampler. A sixty-six-year personal history of midwestern farm kitchens from the recipes and stories of Alice Mickish Hendrickson as told to her daughter, Ethel Mae Hendrickson Fritz.” The first recipe of the book is presented first in the brief, narrative style true to the era and of most hand written cookbooks, we are then given the revised recipe so that we can all enjoy Carrie’s Brown Stone Front Cake. The balance of recipes for, breads, soups, salads, meat, poultry, vegetables, side dishes, and desserts have been revised, with an occasional anecdote from the original, and the wonderful stories that bring them to life. More than a cookbook, . It contains more than three hundred of Alice Mickish Hendrickson’s recipes… “garnished” with stories… (and) reminiscences. Recipes and stories are “folded” and kneaded” together in a brief personalized history of Midwestern farm kitchens since 1922 as Alice cooked, first with corncobs, then kilowatts and now with microwaves.” (Prologue.).…