For All The "Little House" Fans Out There

During this initial bout of long driving trip vacation planning, I've bought a few guidebooks and informational bits and pieces ("a few?!?" Mr. ReddHedd would say, were he here...).

One of the most fun arrived today in the mail, and I'm so excited that I had to share.

I ordered a book called The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories.

My nerdy, little girl Little House obsession overfloweth.

Ostensibly, this was purchased because I thought it might make things more real for The Peanut if we baked and cooked a few items throughout the year from the Little House books as we were reading them.  Having some context for pioneer life would be educational, too, I thought.

After receiving the book in the mail?

I realized that I really bought it for my own inner child.  Any enjoyment my own child gets out of this will just be a huge added bonus, because I unwrapped the packaging and squealed with glee.

Oooooh, I love trip planning.


Especially when it includes "Long Winter" bread (who doesn't remember the Ingalls' family grinding raw wheat in their coffee grinder?) or Sourdough Biscuits that Laura taught Mrs. Boast to make in the surveyor's house by the shores of Silver Lake.  Or the johnny cakes that Ma made along the pioneer trail from the Big Woods of Wisconsin all the way to Independence, KS, or the jolly pancake men that Ma made the children, including all those cousins, on Christmas morning in the Big Woods.

We are going to have so much fun.