"Farmer's Wife Magazine" connected farm wives from 1890 to the 1930's, and they shared recipes, advice, tips through this essential magazine for rural women in the days before high-speed communications. One of the magazines most popular offerings proved to be the sections on baking and running a farm kitchen - providing everything from basic bread to much-loved holiday desserts. Elaborate company pies, dainties and muffins for club luncheons, rich breads for a warming breakfast or hard-working lunch sandwich, a profusion of pies for threshing parties, specialities like Cornish Pasties and Danish Kranse - all the mouth-watering range is here, inviting readers to recreate the fragrant kitchens and delectable tastes of farm days gone by. Adapted for the modern kitchen, these classic recipes preserve the flavor of a life dedicated to feeding the hard-working family, and indeed a country that lived of the land, and offers readers both nostalgia and comforting, nourishing food in one affordable volume.