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The Pioneer Kitchen


Cover of cookbook, THE PIONEER COOK: A HISTORICAL VIEW OF CANADIAN PRAIRIE FOOD, with an oval photograph of a pioneer woman standing beside a wood cooking stove and grinding coffee in a mill Source

 

Beulah M. Barss. The Pioneer Cook: A Historical View of Canadian Prairie Food. Calgary: Detselig, 1980

A collection of photographs and information from early days on the Prairies. On the cover is Hilda Swedberg, a Scandinavian-American woman who lived in the Marchwell district of Saskatchewan. Her kitchen was "of a very high standard for the time (circa 1900)."

Cover of cookbook, THE CULINARY SAGA OF NEW ICELAND: RECIPES FROM THE SHORES OF LAKE WINNIPEG, with illustrations of a sailboat on a lake, handwritten text as a watermark and a band next to the spine showing rocks and shells Source

 

Kristin Olafson-Jenkyns. The Culinary Saga of New Iceland: Recipes from the Shores of Lake Winnipeg. Guelph, Ont.: Coastline, 2001

"When the Icelanders immigrated to New Iceland (Manitoba's Interlake region) in 1875, it was with a great make-do spirit that the women had to adapt their recipes and cooking methods to the indigenous ingredients of their new environment" (p. 14).

Cover of cookbook, ALBERTA PICTORIAL COOKBOOK, with a photograph of horses and a rider at the Calgary Stampede Source

 

Page 30 of cookbook, ALBERTA PICTORIAL COOKBOOK, with a photograph of a farmer harvesting grain in a field in the foothills of the Rockies, and a recipe for Man Size Bran Muffins Source

 

Page 31 of cookbook, ALBERTA PICTORIAL COOKBOOK, with a colour photograph of an Aboriginal woman in traditional costume and a recipe for Indian Fry Bread Source

Sherman Hines. Alberta Pictorial Cookbook. Dartmouth, N.S.: Stone House, 1988

A celebration of Alberta, updating recipes from its past such as Indian Fry Bread and Spiced Moose Meat, and introducing exciting new dishes from its multicultural present.


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