In the Farm Kitchen, you use what you have. You don't go running to the store for the latest doodad and whatsit. No. The field is your store. The patch your marketplace. If what you're looking for isn't there, then maybe the Neighbor Up Front has it. And maybe you have just what they need, too. If not, then perhaps you didn't need it at all.

It's time to do what has taken place in all Farm Kitchens for days and ages past: it's time to get creative. Yes. Substitute. And maybe, just maybe, the thing being made or being done will be that much better for it.

There are many recipes in this very cookbook just made for that type of living. They're called Farm Kitchen Recipes. When you see them know you're in for a treat-a recipe with lots of suggestions for substitutions to be made and adapted for your Farm Kitchen (because no two are alike)!

Now, not all recipes in this book are of that type and sort. Some the Farmer's Wife insists be made just as they are (they're already the best, after all).

Now. What's in your Farm Kitchen?