A Path Made Straight is hosting a "Children's Book Monday" that I decided to participate in.
Mud Pies and Other Recipes
Written by Marjorie Winslow
Illustrated by Erik Blegvad
You could consider this your daughter or son's, first cookbook. It is a cookbook for dolls and it contains ingredients that a child can easily find and costs no money at all.
Some might even consider these recipes exotic - but unfortunately most of them would probably make your child sick if they actually decided to eat them - so BEWARE!
I love this book. I bought it for my dd when she was about 4 yrs old. This cookbook allows your child to be creative, make a mess and experiment with a host of ingredients. Cleaning up is simple - get out the garden hose!
There are chapters on: appetizers, main dishes, beverages, suggested menus and more. The recipes are sweetly and simply named and the illustrations are black and white pen/ink drawings that very cute.
From the foreword "It is an outdoor cookbook, b/c dolls dote on mud, when properly prepared. They love the crunch of pine needles and the sweet feel of seaweed on the tongue. The market place, then, will be a forest or a sand dune or your own back yard....Doll cookery is not a very exacting art. The time it takes to cook a casserole depends upon how long your dolls are able to sit at table without falling over."
I love the recipe for assorted hors d'oeuvres:
"Take the cardboard from a freshly laundered shirt...glue 8 paper baking cups...this is the hors d'oeuvres tray. Into each cup place anything that comes to mind. Here are 8 examples...grass, clover, pine needles, small berries, flower petals, crushed dry leaves, minced twigs and gravel."
No little girl (or her doll!) should be without this quaint little book.
I found my copy of the book (copyright 1961) on eBay a few years ago. You may still be able to find a book there or one used through Amazon - it did not look like they currently had any new copies.
Mud Pies and Other Recipes
Written by Marjorie Winslow
Illustrated by Erik Blegvad
You could consider this your daughter or son's, first cookbook. It is a cookbook for dolls and it contains ingredients that a child can easily find and costs no money at all.
Some might even consider these recipes exotic - but unfortunately most of them would probably make your child sick if they actually decided to eat them - so BEWARE!
I love this book. I bought it for my dd when she was about 4 yrs old. This cookbook allows your child to be creative, make a mess and experiment with a host of ingredients. Cleaning up is simple - get out the garden hose!
There are chapters on: appetizers, main dishes, beverages, suggested menus and more. The recipes are sweetly and simply named and the illustrations are black and white pen/ink drawings that very cute.
From the foreword "It is an outdoor cookbook, b/c dolls dote on mud, when properly prepared. They love the crunch of pine needles and the sweet feel of seaweed on the tongue. The market place, then, will be a forest or a sand dune or your own back yard....Doll cookery is not a very exacting art. The time it takes to cook a casserole depends upon how long your dolls are able to sit at table without falling over."I love the recipe for assorted hors d'oeuvres:
"Take the cardboard from a freshly laundered shirt...glue 8 paper baking cups...this is the hors d'oeuvres tray. Into each cup place anything that comes to mind. Here are 8 examples...grass, clover, pine needles, small berries, flower petals, crushed dry leaves, minced twigs and gravel."
No little girl (or her doll!) should be without this quaint little book.
I found my copy of the book (copyright 1961) on eBay a few years ago. You may still be able to find a book there or one used through Amazon - it did not look like they currently had any new copies.
