Welcome to the Book Review Linky Party, a sharing link-up for books! We are so happy that books are once again, back in fashion! And a great way to keep them front and center is to share a review of what you have read, if and how you enjoyed it and if you would recommend the book to a friend! Oh and a story or two of how you came to own or stumbled upon the book would also be fun...
The Book Review Linky will start each Wednesday at 12AM MST
and will run Wednesday through Tuesday of the following week. It is hosted with a full link-up at Homemade On A Weeknight! After linking do be sure to take a look at some of the other reviews. You just might find your next good read...plus it is just good fun to support other readers and bloggers. Reading, like travel is the one area where you can and will spend money and yet, you are much richer after doing so!
I am so happy to be a part of this weekly event!
Reading has always been something I have enjoyed. First as a child visiting the library each week (hello Little House books!), then as a parent and grandparent (Good Night Moon!) and always as a cook in my own kitchen. Cookbooks in particular have played a large part in recipe development and as a means to widen my own limited food horizons! While I might not get to Spain or Germany, through a recipe, I can cook the foods enjoyed there! Not to mention learning how to knit, fix a leaking pipe, or even plant a garden, because books can be a large part of our own, journey of a lifetime!
What am I sharing this week?
BY: Yvonne Young Tarr
Copyright 1975 by Yvonne Young Tarr
I have owned this book for decades! It is as much a reference book for me as it is a recipe book. And yet, I have failed to include her recipes here on the blog except for one. But I will remedy that! This is one of the books I keep in our Tiny Home that I pull out from the shelf in my small kitchen and take a quick gander at for inspiration. Or double check a household formula. Like today when I made chicken food for our flock.
As I opened the book during the writing for this review, I notice that the pages are more yellowed than when I found it out thrifting one day. And that smell that books take on, while they age? It is stronger. Personally I have come to appreciate both the yellowing and the odor, because they are always the hallmarks of my favorite books...
This recipe while not a true brandy, is a delicious fruity cordial to be enjoyed at Christmas! You will want to start this in the summertime, to capture all the lovely ripe fruit needed for Christmas Brandy.
What ever you need for your home, you will find in this book. From homemade food and baked bread to making your own household formulas. From wine making to formulas for feeding your chickens. And while this could be considered a homesteader's book, keep in mind it is one I have owned even while living in town. This is actually the best book to get started with if you do want to be independent and make more of your own household products instead of running to the market each week.
Yvonne Young Tarr wrote many cookbooks and I had two of her other books in my collection before I had to small down for our travels as National Parks Service Volunteers and how for living in our Tiny Home. I loved, both The Farmhouse Cookbook, and The New York Times Bread and Soup Cookbook. Personally I could eat bread and soup for dinner for the rest of my life and be completely satisfied...In all she has written thirteen cookbooks!
The Ten Minute Gourmet Cookbook
The Ten Minute Gourmet Diet Cookbook
101 Desserts to Make You Famous
Love Portions
The New York Times Natural Foods Dieting Cookbook
The Complete Outdoor Cookbook
The New York Times Bread and Soup Cookbook
The Farmhouse Cookbook
The Super Easy Step by Step Cheesemaking
The Super Easy Step by Step Winemaking Book
The Super Easy Step by Step Sausagemaking Book
The Super Easy Step by Step Book of Special Breads
along with The Up With Wholesome Down With Store Bought Book of Recipes and Household Formulas.
Shhhh, but now that we are settled, I do plan on looking for a couple more of her books to squeeze onto my cookbook shelf in our Tiny House....
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And with that. I let's go to the Book Review Linky #10!
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That sounds like a fabulous book and it really struck me that even 50 years ago this author was saying down with store bought. Can you imagine what they must think of the "food" lining the stores shelves now?
ReplyDeleteJoanne, I agree!
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