WWW member Gail Jenner released her historic cookbook, Sourdough Biscuits and Pioneer Pies on November 1, 2017 with TwoDot Publishing.
With over 120 vintage/historic recipes, sidebars relating the history of settlement in the West, plus vintage and color photos, this cookbook is a call-out to our WWW membership. Many of the recipes came from WWW members as well as bakers/cooks from all over the West. And though many of the recipes are from history, they’re fully adapted for the modern cook and baker.
Sourdough Biscuits and Pioneer Pies shares the baking secrets of Native American ranch house cooks, chuck wagon chefs, and wagon train homemakers. Laced among classic baked goods recipes such as Sourdough Biscuits, and Wild Grape-Apple Pie are dozens of anecdotes and fun facts on how our ancestors were so successful with so little, which likely calls to the hearts of many of our members!
About Gail
Gail lives with her rancher husband on his family’s 150-year-old, original homestead near Etna in Northern California. The author of ten books, Gail is also an avid cook and gardener and has had recipes published in Better Homes & Gardens, Everyday with Rachel Ray, Country Woman, and A Taste of Home.
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Such a beautiful book full of history and so much more! Thanks for including some of my recipes, Gail!
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