A UNIQUE COOKBOOK FOR GOOD OLE DOWN HOME COOKIN'.This book is a melting pot of delightful recipes, many of which were brought to America by immigrants from the old countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland ... just to name a few.Pioneer Women of the West is a compilation of some of those folks' favorite recipes for meals, deserts, and side dishes, as they pioneered their way to new places to carve out livings, build homes, and raise families.Within are some of their frugal recipes that fed and nourished them ... not only along their journey but well after they set up their homesteads. Today, these recipes are the basis of delicious, easy-to-prepare and easy-to-cook, comforting foods.The Pioneer Women of the West Cookbook is a blend of wholesome and delicious recipes, with a dash of history of those pioneer folks.This book is a tribute to women who through thick & thin, hardship & triumph, painted a future for themselves and their families in many ways. It's a compilation of love and courage as much as it is recipes for delicious and wholesome dishes.Take A Little Journey Back Into The Past!A lot of people have traditional family recipes handed down to them from generation to generation. Sometimes family recipes get lost or misplaced. Often a recipe of one family differs to one degree or extent or another from others' recipes.History Revealed!Original recipes in the handwriting of an ancestor are often like a time machine into the past. The writing style and grammar and verbiage used in old recipes can be as enticing and delicious as the dishes you can make from those recipes.Wouldn't it be fun, interesting, and enlightening to tap into that kind of time travel...to actually get a glimpse into the lives of the folks who wrote down the ingredients and preparation directions of some of the meals that your grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles grew up enjoying?Let Your Taste buds and Imagination Wrap Around Some of Those Recipes.Pioneer Women of the West cookbook is just the ticket to a blend of wholesome and delicious meals, and a touch of history of the pioneer folks who brought their recipes of hearty dishes with them across plains, valleys, mountains and rivers. Pioneer Women of the West Cookbook is a compilation of some of their favorite foods, deserts, and side dishes.
About the Author: R. Steven Thompson is a descendant of American pioneers who emigrated to the American West to settle in what is now known as the Magic Valley of Southern Idaho. He makes his home with his wife, Donna Daywoman Thompson "off the grid" on his parents 40 acre homestead. While growing up on his family's farm, he got a taste of pioneer life as he slopped hogs, milked cows, bucked hay, and rode his mare he affectionately called "babe". Thompson is a writer, author, photographer and outdoor enthusiast. Thompson likes Dutch Oven cooking; he also enjoys dishes and meals his wife, Donna, prepares from the very recipes within this book. Researching, compiling and writing this Pioneer Cook Book offered Thompson a time machine back to days on the family farm, when as a teenager he was transplanted from town. He slopped the pigs, herded a small head of cattle, milked a cow, repaired his share of fences, and owned his very own horse. It took him back to his childhood days at his grandma's house. "As I worked on this book I visited such places as the Silent City of Rocks and Castle Rocks in the southern-most region of the great state of Idaho. My wife, Donna, and I along with our two grandkids -- Liberty & Alieus -- enjoyed camping in a yurt on Smokey Mountain at the Castle Rocks State Park. There, we cooked our meals outdoors, prepared from some of the recipes archived in this book. "We also traveled across Granite Pass of the California Pioneer Trail, and we drove past old pioneer apple orchards and what remains of old homestead sites and cabins. All of those adventures helped energize me to work on and complete this book. "I hope you enjoy the recipes. I hope these pages inspire you and bring back your own tender memories of precious days gone by."