Note: The first three bulletpoints below are from Chapter 9: Going to Town.

Making homemade butter (This recipe uses a stand mixer, but shake it in a jar for a more hands-on experience!).

We’re not big meat eaters, but just check the chapter listings above to add a meat of your choice in if desired!Ī 4 Week Meal Plan to Cook Your Way Through Little House in the Big Woods I knew it would take us around four weeks to reread the book, so I came up with a meal plan (one meal each week) to highlight the foods we wanted to try.

walnuts, hickory nuts, hazelnuts, boiled potatoes, carrots, turnips, stewed pumpkin with bread, baked Hubbard Squash, hulled corn and milk, cabbage and meat, beans, johnnycake, salt-rising bread, pumpkin pies, dried berry pies.

bread, butter, cheese, hardboiled eggs, cookies, candy hearts.

hasty pudding with syrup, pumpkin pies, dried berry pies, salt-rising bread, pickles, pancakes.

maple syrup (on bread), cake of maple sugar.

Some of our pancake men looked like turtles and other sea creatures, but tasted good!

salt-rising bread, rye and Injun bread, baked beans, Swedish crackers, vinegar pies, dried apple pies, molasses snow candy, pancake men.

butter, bread (made on Saturdays!), cookies.

venison, fish, sausage, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, onions, pumpkins.

Here’s that list, so that you can come up with your own meal ideas (or just skip to the end of the post for the plan we used): Vinegar Pie?! Let’s just say the family was divided on this one. What I did first:īack in January, I went through each chapter of Little House in the Big Woods and made a list of every food mentioned in its pages, so that afterwards I could create a specific menu plan for our family to follow. We’ve had our copy for years, and have learned so much from it! It not only describes recipes, but also includes historical notes, book excerpts, and illustrations.įor this post, though, I’ve also included links to a few online recipes so you can get started right away. It goes without saying that if you’re serious about the food in Little House, you need to invest in this cookbook. I’m here to invite you to do the same, and make it really easy for you, too! Why not cook our way through Little House in the Big Woods? There’s a lot of good food in Little House. So in my “ inspire, not require” brain, a plan began to brew: One of the kids, who tends to be my more reluctant reader, got all into it: giggling at the funny parts, engaging with thoughtful questions. We’d read the series twice start to finish (once when the kids were 6-8 once when they were 8-10), and even voyaged in crazy road trip fashion to see with our own eyes where the Ingalls lived and worked.īut then Christmas happened–and I read this book aloud. Ya’ll, I can’t seem to escape Little House. Is this some kind of disorder or syndrome?!Īfter our year of Little House in 2013/2014, I honestly thought we were done with it.

Little house in the woods book