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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. I love that book. I usually reread it every winter!

[thinkingagain]

2. Do you have this?

The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories

[betsuni]

3. Yes!

Haven't actually followed any of the recipes.

The forward made me envious because the author describes how she and her daughter replicated food from the series, even the coffee grinder sourdough seed wheat bread. I was obsessed with these books when young and my mother, without knowing anything about them, brushed them off as romanticized. I thought, well, if cougars and bears and wolves, blizzards, tornadoes, fires, locusts and blackbirds eating your crops, nearly starving to death during The Long Winter, having a family member go blind, etc, is romanticized...

I will say that nobody ever taking a bath or using the outhouse in "The Long Winter" isn't very realistic.

[thinkingagain]

4. My favorite books as a kid also

But I don’t have the cookbook.
I did try and make the candy with snow and maple syrup one year. I don’t think I did it correctly.
But your post made me think about all that goodness and how they could make something out of nothing it seemed.
Good memories.

[betsuni]

5. I think every kid who read the books with access to snow tried that!

And was disappointed that pouring maple syrup over snow doesn't work.