| Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm, just like the best Christmas stockings, is stuffed full of all kinds of neat things – recollections and recipes, simple, homemade gift ideas and craft projects – all sparked with a sprinkling of humor and illustrated with whimsical full-color illustrations. Like some of the best things in life, Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm is difficult to describe. It celebrates the simple things that we enjoy out here on the farm: family, dogs and cats and goats and geese and wildlife and the changing seasons, and most of all: Christmas!
Here are some excerpts from the book:
"Heart and Home – a patchwork of memories; Deck the Halls, Walls and Anything That Stands Still; Let it Snow, Snow, Snow; Christmas down in the Red Barn; Meowy Christmas and Yappy Holidays. Recipes abound in Farmhouse Brunch, Recipes for Wintry Days, Christmas in the Country Kitchen and Save Room for Dessert – and all are generously illustrated with Norma Thomas Herr’s charming watercolors and my own colored pencil drawings.
You might like to try your hand at our daughter Ellen’s Blue Ribbon Chili – it won first place at the county fair! A pan full of Good Neighbor Sue’s Cinnamon Rolls fills the house with the cinnamon-y, buttery good smell of baking. Try my Lemon Shortbread or my sister Hope’s Hot Buttered Rum to chase away the chill of a winter’s night.
Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm is a spiral-bound gift book brimming with country wisdom and humor, recipes, easy projects and gift how-tos, and even a little poetry, in chapters with titles like: Not Even a Mouse; Deck the Halls, Walls and Anything Else that Stands Still; Let it Snow, Snow, Snow; Born in a Barn and Meowy Christmas and Yappy Holidays.
When the holiday season arrives, I polish up the jars of jelly and bottles of herb vinegars lined up in the pie safe since summer, and ready them for Christmas giving. While creating special gifts for family or friends, my thoughts turn fondly to each recipient and I hope each feels the warmth and affection that infuses every gift.
Many recipes from my collection and those lovingly provided by friends and family contain more than measurements and ingredients. Fond memories are found throughout the book in chapters such as: Farmhouse Brunch, Christmas in the Country Kitchen, Save Room for Dessert and Recipes for Wintry Days.
Togetherness, laughter, handmade gifts and home-cooked food, music, a fire on the hearth – all are at the heart of Christmas on the farm. Home, family and friends, animals and nature, these are the things that bring richness to life. Being able to celebrate these things through my writing – that too is a gift from God, and at the same time my gift to give."
This book is 300 pages with sturdy coil binding.
#SB-28 = $21.95 each |
