The Prairie Kitchen Set
Kuchen for Sunday coffee. Knoephla on a cold night. Krumkake at Christmas. 35 Northern Plains recipes from Norwegian, German-Russian and Canadian kitchens, with every amount spelled out.
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Knoephla soup · p.40
Do you remember?
Most of that cooking was never written down. It lived in someone's hands, in "a little of this" and "bake till it's done." When they were gone, so were the recipes.
This book puts those dishes back on the table, with real measurements, so you can make them for the people at yours.
Why a cookbook
You've seen it: a life story before the ingredients, ads jumping around the page, and a "kuchen" that has never been near North Dakota.
What's inside
Bread for the counter, something sweet from the oven, an everyday supper, vegetables from the garden and a dish to share.
CHAPTER 1 · 7 RECIPESA loaf for the counter. A pan for the morning.
CHAPTER 2 · 7 RECIPESFruit in the middle. Something to share.
CHAPTER 3 · 7 RECIPESOne pot, a warm dish, a place to sit.
CHAPTER 4 · 7 RECIPESLet the vegetables do their own work.
CHAPTER 5 · 7 RECIPESA small portion, passed from hand to hand.
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Where to start
Everything you get
A single download you can read on your phone tonight, or print and keep beside the stove for years.
No subscription. No account to remember. If you change phones, the download link in your email still works.
Five downloads in one purchase: the cookbook, plus four companions to make it easier to cook from, keep and share.
Also in your download: A Taste of the Prairie, our free 5-recipe booklet.
Digital download: PDF + MP3 files · Print at home · No physical book is shipped
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A Taste of the Prairie is a 10-page booklet you can keep, whether or not you ever buy the set:
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From the YouTube channel
On Marlys of the Prairie, Marlys tells how farm families on the Northern Plains really lived from the 1930s to the 1960s: the hard winters, the threshing days, the church basements, and the kitchens that kept everyone fed.
This cookbook gathers the food from those kitchens into one place you can cook from.
From readers
Before you buy
Five downloads, plus the free booklet, all on one download page (six files in all). Everything is digital: nothing is shipped. The Prairie Kitchen Book (PDF, 94 pages, 35 recipes), the Large-Print Kitchen Edition (PDF), At Marlys's Kitchen Table (MP3 audio, about 13 minutes), the Fridge Reference Card (PDF, 1 page), Our Family Recipes keepsake sheets (PDF, 6 pages), and the free booklet A Taste of the Prairie.
No. It has the same 35 recipes, set in bigger, clearer type with a simple layout that's easy on the eyes and on printer ink. Use whichever one you find easier to read.
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Yes. Print the whole book, or only the recipes you want to keep by the stove. Everything is sized for US Letter paper and also prints fine on A4 (choose "fit to page").
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Marlys is the storyteller character from our YouTube channel. Her voice and many images are made with AI. The recipes are researched adaptations of Northern Plains and Canadian prairie cooking, with sources credited at the back of the book.
No. It's a digital PDF, so nothing is shipped and you can start cooking today.
Almost everything is at a regular grocery store. Saskatoon berries can be hard to find outside the northern states, so the recipe tells you how to use blueberries instead.
Most recipes need only an ordinary oven, stovetop and pans. Two cookies need special tools (a krumkake iron and sandbakkel molds), and every recipe lists its equipment at the top.
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