Log Cabin Cooking - 2015

This handcrafted journal begins with a paperback copy of Log Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore and is transformed into a durable hardcover book journal in the Red Barn studio. The original illustrated cover and ALL printed pages are preserved inside, blending old world storytelling with fresh space for writing, dreaming, planning recipes, or recording your own family food traditions.

The book reads like a time capsule of early American life. Its opening pages invite you into the year 1835, when cooking meant survival, creativity, and community. From make-do meals and hearth cooking to foraged ingredients, stews, breads, desserts, beverages, and simple remedies, the content celebrates the everyday ingenuity of frontier kitchens. Each chapter reflects how food connected people long before supermarkets and convenience shortcuts existed.

ALL pages from the original book remain throughout the journal, tucked between clean writing pages so you can pause to read a bit of pioneer lore before continuing your own story. The result is part cookbook keepsake and part personal journal, made to be used rather than sit on a shelf.

This edition began as a paperback and has been carefully reinforced and mounted onto a sturdy hardcover backing, giving it the look and feel of a traditional bound book while preserving the original artwork and charm of the 2015 printing.

It is an ideal journal for home cooks, history lovers, homesteaders at heart, and anyone who appreciates handwritten recipes, slow living, and stories rooted in simple traditions. 

SIZE:  8.25” x 5.5”
2015 Printing 

ABOUT OUR JOURNALS
We search for books that have been discarded and give them new life by turning them into one-of-a-kind journals and noebooks

• 72+ journal pages
• 24# acid-free paper
• Entire story included in all kids books, selections for longer novels/texts
• Sturdy antique brass metal coil, allows the journal to lay flat
• Handcrafted with love