If you are looking for the latest haute culinary art or "fad" diet, you are in the wrong place.

What you wish find here is Plain Cookin' Volume 1. The kind of "stick to your ribs" house cookery that helped build this country and do it great.

When our forefathers took off from St. Louis, Missouri those galore years ago, for the most part they were looking for farmland.

Did they find it? You bet they did and the recipes you wish find here are representative of their blood, sweat, tears and the kind of food that unbroken them going from dawn 'til dusk.

We have taken several liberties, updated the units of measure and altered for several modern ingredients, but the result is the same. . . Plain Cookin' that you are sure to enjoy.

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