Recipes & Rhyme: Comfort Food from the Northeast Kingdom

The recipes in this appealing book were compiled from personal cookbooks begun in the 1890s and added to for sixty years. With Vermont frugality, they were pasted onto and written in the blank spaces of hardbound books. Selections from two volumes of vernacular light verse by Mary Elkins Gardyne, Oup in Ole Vermont and Encore, accompany recipes with names that are gastronomic poetry in themselves: Red Flannel Hash, Hedgehogs, Mutton Dressed Like Venison, and Kiss Me Cake.