Little house on the prairie.

[SearchingforSerenity]

I think I saw her there once. She was like 10 years old or something.

The cookbook is mostly about Melissa Gilbert and growing up on the set. There are a couple of cookbooks for Little House on the Prairie.

The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories

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Description

This award-winning cookbook features more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicles in her classic Little House books. A great gift for Little House fans and anyone who wants more information about what life on the prairie was really like.

With this cookbook, you can learn how to make classic frontier dishes like corn dodgers, mincemeat pie, cracklings, and pulled molasses candy. The book also includes excerpts from the Little House books, fascinating and thoroughly researched historical context, and details about the cooking methods that pioneers like Ma Ingalls used, as well as illustrations by beloved artist Garth Williams.

This is a chance to dive into the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American pioneer, women's club member, and farm homesteader.

This book has been widely praised and is the winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The Horn Book praised it as "a culinary and literary feast."

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The Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook

Description

Little House fans can now share Laura's original recipes and enjoy her wholesome country cooking. Updated for the modern kitchen, these recipes are enriched with anecdotes about Laura's life on the farm by noted Wilder historian William Anderson. Leslie Kelly's handsome full-color photographs of Laura's beloved farmhouse bring her recipes and stories to life. Pull up a chair, don your apron, and enjoy the old-fashioned warmth of a Little House country kitchen.

The cookbook contains 147 pages of photographs and recipes and 4 pages of Laura's household hints. It contains both vintage and contemporary photographs.

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They look interesting but they don't come in any ebook format, so I haven't gotten them. Maybe they will have those recipes you want to read about though.

I'll go over Melissa Gilbert's cookbook again to see if she might have the recipes you're looking for.


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I’ve been to the house in Missouri pictured on the book and to the banks of plum creek in Minnesota. The house was quick beautiful and everything inside such as counters and doors were measured shorter for Laura and Alonzo’s small statures.

 

[Lanolin]

I’ve been to the house in Missouri pictured on the book and to the banks of plum creek in Minnesota. The house was quick beautiful and everything inside such as counters and doors were measured shorter for Laura and Alonzo’s small statures.

How many homes where there in total that Laura lived in? I forget but she moved around a lot. In contrast I still live in the house I grew up in. A few of my friends change addresses so often that every time I see them they are in a new place.

I used to be envious that they moved around so much because my family never went anywhere. I thought it was adventurous being in a new place all the time. One of them lived in a 'tiny' house that was just one room pretty much like shoebox. I called her place 'the longbox'. When she had to move house she literally had to move it on a trailer to a new location.

 

[SearchingforSerenity]

How many homes where there in total that Laura lived in? I forget but she moved around a lot. In contrast I still live in the house I grew up in. A few of my friends change addresses so often that every time I see them they are in a new place.

I used to be envious that they moved around so much because my family never went anywhere. I thought it was adventurous being in a new place all the time. One of them lived in a 'tiny' house that was just one room pretty much like shoebox. I called her place 'the longbox'. When she had to move house she literally had to move it on a trailer to a new location.

You know to be honest I don’t know completely. That image of that house, down the hill from it, is another house. It’s a brick cottage, and it was more of a summer home with a beautiful meadow. It’s maybe 200 yards from that one on the book cover. Also, in that town where that house is located, it’s a Nellies diner, it’s a cafe style business. It’s full operational. You can go inside and order. I remember very vividly, two older gentleman , sitting across from eachother. Two cups of coffee , both wearing plaid, talking about the morning in a deep Missouri drawl. Or as they would say in Missouri - “Missoura”. The location of that home also has a museum where they give tours and tours of the home. I believe in that museum there was a map, showing there travels. Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska, they did move a lot Lanolin. Like a lot. I think Charles in real life was quite a dreamer. In many ways I would call it an unstable upbringing in terms of have a home. The banks of plum creek was located in walnut grove Minnesota. They had a little school that you could go in, very similar to the show. The banks was literally a bank by a slough basically. Just an overgrown dirt mound,. Where they dug in and lived for awhile.

I have a book of settlers and in it, many new comers wrote they sometimes lived in dirt holes for a winter until it turned spring to build. Living and foraging off of anything. Sometimes eating muskrats and coyotes to survive. Anything really. And all in the exteme Canadian winters we have here. Let us all be grateful for the grocery stores

 

[Lanolin]

Wow it's interesting that those places are now preserved, since Laura immortalised them in her books.
The itinerant lifestyle is an adventure but it also is unsettling for those that crave stability, which I'm sure poor Ma had to endure. I read that Pa was running away from debt and that was why they moved so much. He was also probably facing eviction at a few places.
You can only go so far west in the US until you reach California and the Pacific Ocean, then that frontier cannot be crossed. Human migration is a complex thing, but it's as real as birds flying south for the winter. I wondered how far north and south people would venture until they give up. Antartica is now the final frontier, and I suppose Greenland for the north. I always wondered how people could live in igloos and not freeze to death.

 

[SearchingforSerenity]

Wow it's interesting that those places are now preserved, since Laura immortalised them in her books.
The itinerant lifestyle is an adventure but it also is unsettling for those that crave stability, which I'm sure poor Ma had to endure. I read that Pa was running away from debt and that was why they moved so much. He was also probably facing eviction at a few places.
You can only go so far west in the US until you reach California and the Pacific Ocean, then that frontier cannot be crossed. Human migration is a complex thing, but it's as real as birds flying south for the winter. I wondered how far north and south people would venture until they give up. Antartica is now the final frontier, and I suppose Greenland for the north. I always wondered how people could live in igloos and not freeze to death.

Well some Inuit here and Canada still do. They are extremely warm and insulated from thick icy/snow blocks. Suprising but it’s doable. I don’t think you’d be naked much inside then haha

 

[ThereRoseaLamb]

I wonder how many women would tell you that 'a wife and mother' can have a great life!

It is certainly the most honorable life that a woman can have. ("in God's eyes")

I haven't been able to be a mother, but I came to be a wife later in life and I would not change anything except wishing I had met him sooner. He has been a blessing, an encourager, my best friend, more than I could hope to find.

 

[Lanolin]

I haven't been able to be a mother, but I came to be a wife later in life and I would not change anything except wishing I had met him sooner. He has been a blessing, an encourager, my best friend, more than I could hope to find.

I think because you met him later in life, you didn't need to 'marry in haste, repent at leisure'

 

[Snackersmom]

I wonder how many women would tell you that 'a wife and mother' can have a great life! It is certainly the most honorable life that a woman can have. ("in God's eyes")

I totally agree that a wife and mother can have a great life .

However, although marriage and motherhood are certainly honorable, I'm curious why you say that in God's eyes it is the "most honorable life that a woman can have". Are you basing that off of a certain verse, and if so which one?

 

[Lanolin]

I totally agree that a wife and mother can have a great life .

However, although marriage and motherhood are certainly honorable, I'm curious why you say that in God's eyes it is the "most honorable life that a woman can have". Are you basing that off of a certain verse, and if so which one?

huh, is it because He classes all other unmarried, barren women as whores? I don't think so.
Jesus didn't think so, he was friends with Mary Magdalene, and also, when people went round praising his mother, blessing her womb and her breasts for having nursed and carried him Jesus simply said those that do the will of God are his mother and brothers.

I do think Jesus mother remarried though, and her husband was Clopas, because that's the only plausible explanation for having two Mary's witness his crucifixion

God did say Mary would have sorrow in her life.
Little House on the Paririe, was full of sorrows for Ma. She lost her son at a young age, her house burned down, one of her daughters was blind, her husband sidelined her in favour of a dream he couldn't realise. At least he didn't cheat on her.

I wouldn't say all pioneering women had a great life, in reality it actually was a HARD life for Laura. Never having a permanent home, having to live in a basic mud hut. When she finally settled in her old age, Laura had her own job and was no longer dependent on her husband, who became infirm. Laura's own daughter was fiercely independent, as she was raised to have a better life, got an education, never married, and didn't have children. She was also able to afford a house, several actually, she even bought her mum one.

I might have written about this before, but thing is a lot of men refuse to see it, and believe women are only meant to serve them. Well yes, put a ring on it, but don't take into account how women actually feel being wives and mothers and bound to them all their lives, esp when husbands are not always kind. Many are downright abusive. We would not have feminism and women's refuges if men actually did honor their wives and mothers all the time.

 

[GaryA]

I totally agree that a wife and mother can have a great life .

However, although marriage and motherhood are certainly honorable, I'm curious why you say that in God's eyes it is the "most honorable life that a woman can have". Are you basing that off of a certain verse, and if so which one?

I am just now getting to reading this and will get back to you as soon as I reasonably can...

 

[Lanolin]

Look forward to hearing your answer @GaryA

Can I guess you'll probably quote Proverbs 31 lady?

 

[Lanolin]

I think she was rich beyond belief and was probably the wife of someone royal. Or at least, very wealthy.
Maybe back in the day, it was expected.

Poor Ma was actually quite poor, their family could barely make ends meet at times. I think they were rich in love though, at least little Laura thought so.

 

[bisi]

You are right. Shows now glamorize adultery, stealing, materialism, greed and many vices. But the bible did warm that God will become bad and vice versa.

 

[Lanolin]

The books were written for children, so thats why the shows are so wholesome.
I think you can still find G rated shows, except most of them nowadays are cartoons.

 

[GaryA]

where all they expected to do was to be a wife and mother and not have their own life.

I bet you think that a man with the responsibilities that come with having a family "has his own life" (whereas, "the woman does not") - as opposed to having made great sacrifices that come with having a family.

Marriage is an option. But, it is a willful 'union' where both the husband and the wife agree that the joy of a shared life together is worth the sacrifices made by both the husband and the wife.

It is pure baloney to say that the wife gives up her life for the husband but that the husband does not give up his life for the wife. Both have given up the otherwise life they might have had because they both believe that the married life is better.

oh really
So Christ didn't have to give up his own life to save the church right?

Jesus is...baloney?

and you want to bet? ok whatever. Also, why would I say what you said when I didn't even say it. Weird.

If you'd seen Little House on the Prairie, or read the real life account AND the books, you'd understand how Ma REALLY felt, when Pa just did his own thing and expected the girls to go along with him and didn't care for their education or settling down, in a town with amenities. They were always on the run...from debt! It's very different from what was presented in the books through Laura's eyes of a child.

Plus there is actually a reason why Laura Ingalls Wilder did not vow to obey her husband.

You are not making any sense...???

Jesus is the 'male'/'man'/'husband' part of the 'church' relationship. And, He most definitely "gave all" for the 'female'/'woman'/'wife' in the relationship.

I watched the show as a kid growing up - do not currently remember enough about it to get into the details of it.

My post was an "answer" to your statement about women not having their own life.

 

[GaryA]

I might have written about this before, but thing is a lot of men refuse to see it, and believe women are only meant to serve them. Well yes, put a ring on it, but don't take into account how women actually feel being wives and mothers and bound to them all their lives, esp when husbands are not always kind. Many are downright abusive. We would not have feminism and women's refuges if men actually did honor their wives and mothers all the time.

Yes - unfortunately, there are a lot of clueless shallow men in this world; however, if you have not yet learned that - by the grace of God - Satan has failed to turn every man on earth into a selfish bastard idiot - the kind that does not care how he treats women - then, you still have something to learn about some of the men on the earth that do care about how they treat women - all women/girls/females - mother, sister, daughter, niece, wife, neighbor, friend, acquaintance, stranger, babies, ...

 

[GaryA]

Some of us endeavor to do our very best - every moment, every minute, every hour, every day of our lives - to do the right thing - every time, all the time - without fail, without exception...

 

[GaryA]

Look forward to hearing your answer @GaryA

Can I guess you'll probably quote Proverbs 31 lady?

Of course - but, it is only one part of what God says in His Word concerning this particular topic.

 

[GaryA]

I totally agree that a wife and mother can have a great life .

However, although marriage and motherhood are certainly honorable, I'm curious why you say that in God's eyes it is the "most honorable life that a woman can have". Are you basing that off of a certain verse, and if so which one?

I am just now getting to reading this and will get back to you as soon as I reasonably can...

I have not forgot about you - "working on it" - based on more than just any one certain verse - need time to look up and compile a list of passages/verses...

 

[GaryA]

I haven't been able to be a mother, but I came to be a wife later in life and I would not change anything except wishing I had met him sooner. He has been a blessing, an encourager, my best friend, more than I could hope to find.

Thank you for testifying that there are men in this world that can be a blessing, encourager, best friend, etc. to a woman. I am happy that you found such a man.