Children at the Hearth 19th Century Cooking, Manners and Games

Eat your way back in time and enter the world of American children as they lived 150 years ago. Sample foods, folklore and games found in the parlors of the wealthy, the boarding houses of the working class, and the cabins on the western frontier. Includes over 60 vintage photos plus historic recipes like cathead biscuits, sugar plums and hobo mulligan stew. Learn to make snow candles and snow taffy, tell Appalachian ghost stories and play roley hole and jack straws.Swell, Barbara is the author of 'Children at the Hearth 19th Century Cooking, Manners and Games' with ISBN 9781883206345 and ISBN 1883206340.