The Farmer's Wife Baking Cookbook: Over 300 blue-ribbon recipes!

Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmers Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find and share advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. One of the magazines most popular offerings was advice on baking, providing farm family recipes for making everything from basic bread to much-loved holiday desserts.

The elaborate cakes and company pies, the dainties and muffins for club luncheons, the rich breads for a…