Meals at the Ancestral Hearth – Cookbook
$12.00
Description
Download Meals at the Ancestral Hearth, our 59-page (printer version) and 100-page (eBook version) cookery book, covering twenty of our favorite nutrient-dense dishes. These meals come directly from our kitchens – the result of feeding our families three times a day, seven days a week, and can be suited and adapted for any season and any region of the world.
Follow these recipes word-for-word or use them the way we do – as a springboard to create whatever version suits the season we are in! These could be the building blocks of a years’ worth of diverse dishes.
- Twenty foundational recipes (including main courses, breads, beverages and desserts!)
- Printer-friendly – color photographs are collected on the last few pages
- Two PDFs of the book – one is formatted for printing, the other formatted for e-readers
- Our go-to everyday Sourdough Spelt Bread
- Lacto-Fermented Ice-Cream and Chewy Sourdough Oatmeal Cookies
- The Ancestral Kitchen Challenge to take you deeper into your kitchen explorations
- Four ancestral menus from our own kitchens
- Water Kefir 101 in-depth with your questions answered and a foolproof guide for preparing at home
- Our ancestral pantry listed in detail – what do we keep on hand in our kitchens?
- Alison’s favorite kitchen tools
- Andrea’s favorite butchering and preservation tools
- An easy guide for preserving fresh eggs in spring – eggs that will keep fresh all year long!
- Detailed guide for making sauerkraut the easy way, as well as a Pacific Northwest variation on kimchi
Laura –
While I was blessed by family meals around the table at home growing up, the meals were only a bit above the Standard American Diet and I did not really learn to cook as a child. I was a young adult well before the internet so I learned to cook mostly from cookbooks! I quickly found that my favorite cookbooks to learn from were the ones that included a bit of extra information about the ingredients and cooking methods in each recipe – and photographs so that I had a hint as to what my dish was supposed to wind up looking like.
This cookbook from Andrea and Alison is exactly the best type of cookbook to learn from! And because their recipes are for the most part quite unique from other cookbooks I’ve used, I am so enjoying learning from them!
I love that the ebook and print versions are included. In the kitchen I prefer working off a hard copy that I can jot notes onto, but I like to have electronic versions that I can reference on my phone when I’m at my farm store or farmer’s market (especially when something is on sale and I want to make sure I have the other ingredients for a particular recipe).
Thank you, Alison and Andrea for adding to my cooking education!
Jess Cote (verified owner) –
Great real food for the family with easy to follow instructions. I especially loved Andrea’s soaked biscuits!
Megan –
I love the practicality of this cookbook. Whether a person is an ancestral cooking newbie or considers themselves experienced, there’s delicious, approachable recipes in here for everyone. I especially love Alison’s technique for making sauerkraut! I’m not one for buying a lot of digital downloads, but this is worth every penny. Highly recommend!
Liz Filoramo –
This is not your everyday cookbook but the recipes fit into an every day meal plan. I love the variety of recipes from dinners and soups to desserts and breads. Not only is it inspiring but they contain meals that are not only delicious but nutritious. I highly recommend this cookbook.
Rachel (verified owner) –
I am really excited to dive more into this cookbook. I have glanced through, and it is a very good mix of recipes, focusing on things that feel like they would be core to use over and over again. And most of the recipes are things that are also very adaptable to other varieties and using other ingredients but give a helpful guide and structure.
I really like the information and resources given before the recipes. The whole organization and what is included makes it feel very accessible to those of us newer to this food journey!
And I enjoy that the recipes feel like you are receiving it from a friend with hints of personality and just being so down-to-earth and not giving any hint of trying to impress but just sharing something they genuinely enjoy!
The recipes are very intentionally not fussy, and I am eager to dive in trying them! I’m definitely glad I purchased this cookbook!