Prairie Cooks or Alexander Harkin

Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns and Other Reminiscences

Author: Carrie Young

In her warm and often deliciously funny memoir Prairie Cooks, Carrie Young celebrates the Norwegian American foods of her childhood in an artful blend of reminiscences and recipes.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
1.	Lutefisk and Lefse	1
2.	Cooking for the Threshers	13
3.	All of Her Mother's Children	26
4.	Liver, Black Pudding, and Antiphlogistine	33
5.	A Flair for the Dramatic	37
6.	Glorified Rice	45
7.	One Man's Meat	50
8.	A Born Cook	59
9.	Bloomers	70
10.	Kaffe Tid	74
11.	Gigi	82
12.	Entire County Saved by Rhubarb	88
13.	Fran's Famous Frozen Peas	92
14.	A Man's Worth	94
15.	Three-Day Buns	99
16.	The Nine Days of Christmas	105
	A Note on the Recipes	129
	Recipe Index	131

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Alexander Harkin: The Minnesota Centennial Cookbook

Author: Virginia Huck

Features nearly three hundred old and new recipes from the kitchens of homemakers in cities and on farms in Minnesota's 87 counties. This favorite includes centuries-old traditional ethnic specialties as well as modern regional tried-and-true home cooking.