{"product_id":"wagon-wheel-kitchens-food-on-the-oregon-trail-9780700606108","title":"Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail","description":"Pioneer temperaments, Jacqueline Williams shows, were greatly influenced by that which was stewable, bakable, broilable, and boilable. Using travelers' diaries, letters, newspaper advertisements, and nineteenth-century cookbooks, Williams re-creates the highs and lows of cooking and eating on the Oregon Trail. She investigates the mundane--biscuits and bacon, mush and coffee--as well as the unexpected--carbonated soda made from bubbling spring water; ice cream created from milk, snow, and peppermint; fresh fruits and vegetables. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnderstanding what and how the pioneers ate, Williams demonstrates, is essential to understanding how they lived and survived--and sometimes died--on the trail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book holds an encyclopedia of information culled from diaries and contemporary newspapers. I can't think of a more intimate account of the lives of the overlanders, how they turned their rude wagons into homes, how they made meals both a comfort and a celebration. Some readers will want to try out recipes; others will read in awe as in the midst of difficult travel, women made certain their families marked the Fourth of July with cakes--fruit jelly and sponge-puddings, and ice cream--and clean underwear!--Lillian Schlissel, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Diaries of the Westward Journey\u003ci\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWestern Women: Their Lands, Their Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700606108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Jacqueline Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41334473654453,"sku":"9780700606108","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a49b9d37-f1de-4faf-b9a2-1481546c9e21.jpg?v=1636432909","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wagon-wheel-kitchens-food-on-the-oregon-trail-9780700606108","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}