Here's a great 1st Edition cookbook from 1997 that is filled with Prize-Winning Recipes from America's State Fairs titled:
THE ALL-NEW BLUE RIBBON COOKBOOK
A Treasury of Home Cooking by Catherine Hanley. This soft cover cookbook measures about 7 3/4 inches wide by about 9 inches tall with 224 pages including index. The book is in occasionally used condition with some wear to the edges and spine of the front and back covers from age and re-shelving---top front cover corner has a small bend at the tip. INSIDE the pages are clean and at least 99% free of marks, stains or writing.
America's state fairs provide a venue for showing off the nation's best agriculture and animal husbandry. These fairs' baking and canning contests demonstrate the culinary uses of the farms' plant and animal products. Hanley has culled these tournaments' best recipes and compiled them into a volume that will appeal to those nostalgic for an era when most American families still lived on farms.
Hanley's compendium emphasizes cakes, pies, cookies, and breads, since these are easily reproducible in contemporary urban environments. Who can resist such all-American creations as coconut supreme cake with its buttery icing or rich fudge-frosted chocolate brownies? Finnish farmers' sourdough rye and similar breads offer more contemporary, health-conscious fare, but most of the recipes joyfully celebrate a period when people believed quite literally in living off the fat of the land.
REMEMBER----cookbooks are mailed via media rate mail to give you the best deal on shipping. The down side is that media rate mail can take up to three weeks for delivery!
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