Arkansas Meals & Memories: Lift Your Eyes to the Mountains by Velda Brotherton

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  • ISBN 10 1930584245
  • ISBN 13 9781930584242
  • Published Apr 15 2010
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 164
  • Language English
  • Edition First
  • Publisher Goldminds Publishing, LLC

Publishers Text

The wilderness of the Boston Mountains of the Arkansas Ozarks challenged settlers who came to claim land after the Cherokee and Osage were uprooted and sent to Indian Territory to the west. These homesteaders found a land rich in timber, wildlife and water. Most settled on the banks of creeks where they could build mills to grind their wheat and corn for bread. Bartering was a way of life. Housewives traded eggs, butter and cream for staples they could not raise. Very little money ever changed hands in the earliest days. Cooking was done first in fireplaces, then later on wood cookstoves, a modern convenience the women rejoiced in having. Arkansas Meals and Memories offers stories about growing up in the Boston Mountains as well as two weeks worth of menus containing the authentic recipes handed down from women who lived in these ancient mountains so long ago.