Kitchen/Cookbooks/Table Runners

Here's a practical solution for all the garden harvest we've acquired. Have a seat on the old front porch glider while we string a mess of pole beans for a garden feast tonight. We’ll have the same in-season supper our great grandmothers fixed back in 1895 when food was food, raised close to home and made from scratch for family and friends every day. Garden Supper Tonight contains vintage economical seasonal recipes, food curiosities, and timeless advice on all things home and gardening. Author: Barbara Swell; Native Ground Books; softcover 6" x 9"; 152 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $18.99; now only $14.59.

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• In 1917, Anna "Cookie" Covington set out to record all of her favorite cookie recipes as a gift to her daughter because no published cookie recipe books existed at the time. Strangely, her 76 page handwritten personal cooking diary was never delivered to her daughter as planned. Then 88 years later, the unused diary fell into the hands of food historian Barbara Swell, who recognized it as perhaps the earliest collection of American cookie recipes, dating from the mid-1880s through World War I. There are 221 recipes recorded from 1917-1920, with adaptations for modern kitchen,s vintage graphics and photos. Also food shortage recipes, and curiosities of cookie baking history. Author: Barbara Swell; Native Ground Books; softcover 6" x 9"; 152 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $18.99; now only $14.59.
  

Pot Holders for All Seasons contains a wide variety of quilted pot holders. You can easily find the perfect design for any time of the year or occasion to dress up your kitchen. They are so cute you may prefer to hang them instead of hiding them in a draw. Select one of the 20 creative pot holders, pull out your scrap basket and you're ready to start stitching fun!
Tutorial sidebars included in this book:
- Raw-Edge Fusible Applique
- Padded Applique
- Mitered Corner Binding
- Cutting Bias Strips
Templates are included on insert provided in the pattern book.

Pages: 80; Author: Chris Malone; Softcover 

Step into our log cabin village and sample some authentic pioneer cooking! From New England to Texas, from the Appalachians to Pike s Peak, pioneer cooks had to be tough and self-sufficient able to whip up hearty meals with little more than an iron pot and a sharp knife. Recipes range from Chisholm Trail Chili to Appalachian Stack Cake and Grandma Cody's Applesauce Cookies. If pioneer life has left you bruised and battered, we've included some curious remedies and questionable cure-alls. This book is loaded with captivating snippets of information, recipes, vintage art and photos and much more! Author: Ann Chandonnet; Native Ground Books; softcover 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 64 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $18.99; now only $14.25.

20 more patterns for table runners and toppers! Each project is shown in 2 colorways.  Great for precuts and scraps. By Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Designs. 104 pages.

20 more patterns for table runners and toppers! Each project is shown in 2 colorways.  Great for precuts and scraps. By Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Designs. 100 pages.

20 patterns for table runners and toppers! Each project is shown in 2 colorways.  Great for precuts and scraps. By Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Designs. 100 pages.

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.  Author: Barbara Swell; Native Ground Books; softcover 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 72 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $9.99; now only $7.49.

Let’s have a picnic! First, we’ll craft a picnic basket from vintage treasures and fill it with classic and creative picnic fare. Then we’re off to backyard, forest, roadside or campfire to enjoy festive sandwiches, garden slaws, fire roasted spreads, homemade raspberry marshmallows and more. Make a tin-can hobo stove, learn about roasting hot dogs on a nifty 1924 Model-T Ford exhaust manifold cooker and discover helpful hints to make your picnic special and easy. Author: Barbara Swell; Native Ground Books; softcover 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 80 pages; softcover. Now 25% off. Originally $9.99; now only $7.49.

This book is packed with heirloom recipes and kitchen wisdom. You’ll cook your heart out with generations of hand-me-down recipes and food lore! Author Barbara Swell has whisked up weather and cooking folklore, food insults, old-time home remedies, vintage photographs, romance superstitions, hearth crafts and 19th century chores. Recipes include Brunswick Stew, Holiday Saffron Bread, Chicken Pie, Fried Green Tomatoes, Apricot Strudel and Lemon Pie Cake. Author: Barbara Swell; Native Ground Books; softcover 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 72 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $9.99; now only $7.49.

Reminisce about simpler times as four 20th Century mountain pioneer women share their cooking secrets. These old-time cooks stir in their own wisdom and tales of growing up on rural farms, where they prepared delicious meals by lantern light on wood cook stoves. Included are heirloom recipes, proverbs, folk remedies, 80 vintage photos, 19th century rhymes and stories. Author: Barbara Swell; Native Ground Books; softcover 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 72 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $9.99; now only $7.49.

This amazing piece of folk history was originally published in 1896 amidst a colonial revival frenzy that swept America’s eastern seaboard in the 1890s. Determined to preserve American colonial cooking, Margaret Hooker collected quaint and curious recipes and remedies that appear to have come from old and reliable sources ranging form the mid-1700s to mid-1800s. Her 266 original illustrations of cooking utensils give us a glimpse of colonial America as seen through the eyes of a young artist and teacher of 1896. Recipes, beauty secrets, etiquette, candle making and household hints are included. Written in 18th century long S style print. Author: Margaret Huntington Hooker; Native Ground Books; softcover 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 248 pages. Now 25% off. Originally $18.99; now only $14.59.