Farm women across America pride themselves in baking perfect cakes, pies, and breads. Farm Journal has carefully collected, tested, and perfected more than 350 outstanding country recipes, many of them state fair prize winners. In this cookbook that also serves as a short course in baking fundamentals, each chapter includes an extra helpful "what went wrong" section to help the baker correct a soggy souffle or too-crunchy cookies for the next time. Tantalizing yeast breads, quick breads, cakes, cookies, and pies include Danish Kringle, Chocolate Velvet Cake, Date Meringue Bars, and Coconut Cream Pie.

The three top reasons why someone would need a farm journal cookbooks are: 1. they contain recipes that are tested over time and may go back over one hundred years; 2. they make wonderful gifts for people such at Christmas and birthdays; 3. farm journal cookbooks are a form of this country's nostalgic past. We like nostalgia.

Come on Home to the Wholesome Delights of Traditional American Cooking! -- Buckwheat Cakes -- -- Idaho Lentil Soup -- -- Sweet Potato Biscuits -- -- Country Fried Green Tomatoes -- -- Texas Chili Dogs -- -- Fresh Pork Pot Roast with Dumplings -- -- Fresh Broccoli with Orange Sauce -- -- Whole Pit-Roasted Pig -- -- Hot Spicy Punch -- -- Fresh Fruit Cobblers -- -- Big-Apple Pie -- and hundreds of other tantalizing, wholesome, wonderful recipes from the heart of America