Cover of Hazel's Kansas Farm Kitchen: Hazel in her kitchen holding a meatloaf in an old tin loaf pan

My mother's Kansas farm suppers, measured out for one or two.

A cookbook you download today, read on your tablet or print at home. It comes in large print, regular print and as an e-book.

135 recipes from a Kansas farm kitchen, nearly all of them for one or two
Mother's "by the handful" beside the old recipes, measured out in cups and spoons
25 suppers under $2 a plate, most of them off the pantry shelf
25 loaf pan suppers: one pan, one supper tonight, one tomorrow
Soups for a small pot, the little slow cooker, skillet suppers, three-ingredient suppers, breakfasts, biscuits and something sweet
A week of suppers with its shopping list, the pantry for one, and a freezer guide
Every temperature in °F and every time in minutes, with the safe temperatures for meat

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What is in the book

Ten chapters, sorted the way you cook: by the pan you have and the time you've got.

Chapter 1 · 17 recipes

Mother’s Farm Suppers

Popcorn and milk on Sunday night, bierocks, rivels, wilted lettuce, milk gravy and the rest of what Mother made from almost nothing.

Chapter 2 · 11 recipes

Breakfasts

Oatmeal with raisins, buttermilk pancakes, sausage gravy, ham and egg cups, all for one.

Chapter 3 · 25 recipes

Loaf Pan Suppers

One 9 x 5 pan, one supper tonight and one tomorrow. Glen's meatloaf, Thanksgiving for one, the dollar supper.

Chapter 4 · 15 recipes

Skillet Suppers

Hamburger gravy, chicken-fried steak, salmon patties, fried green tomatoes, in one skillet.

Chapter 5 · 15 recipes

Soups in the Small Pot

Ham and bean, Monday pinto beans, Mennonite cabbage borscht, all in a 2-quart pot.

Chapter 6 · 12 recipes

The Little Slow Cooker

Kansas beef and noodles, pulled pork, Daddy's apple butter, made for a 2-quart slow cooker.

Chapter 7 · 9 recipes

One Pan in the Oven

Meat and vegetables on one small baking sheet, with nothing to wash but a fork.

Chapter 8 · 12 recipes

Three Things from the Store

Cream biscuits, peanut butter cookies, franks and beans: three things from the store or fewer.

Chapter 9 · 7 recipes

Biscuits, Cornbread and Bread

Mother's buttermilk biscuits, little skillet cornbread, a bride's loaf and cinnamon rolls.

Chapter 10 · 12 recipes

Something Sweet

Snow-shoveling oatmeal cookies, apple crisp for two, pumpkin custard, molasses crinkles.

How every recipe is laid out

How much it makes and how long it takes, right under the name.
A line of where it comes from: Mother's kitchen, Glen's plate, or the neighbor over the fence.
Mother's Way: how she said it ("butter the size of an egg") and what it measures.
What you'll need, in cups and spoons, cut down for one or two.
What to do, step by step, with the oven temperature and the minutes.
Keeping: how long the second plate lasts in the refrigerator and the freezer, and how to warm it.

Sample page: Glen's Meatloaf, made in a loaf pan for two suppers — A recipe, with Mother's Way

Sample page: a week of suppers for one person — A week of suppers for one

Sample page: Mother's handful and pinch, measured in cups and spoons — Mother's way, measured

These are pages from the regular edition, shown small. The large-print edition has the same pages in bigger letters.

Cooking for one, the whole way through

Start Here: five easy recipes for the first week, if you haven't cooked in a while
Twenty-Five Suppers Under Two Dollars: the cheapest suppers in the book, marked so you can find them
The Pantry for One: what to keep on hand so there's always supper in the house
Buy Big, Divide Small: how to split a pound of beef, a pack of chicken or a rotisserie chicken
A Week of Suppers and the shopping list that goes with it
The Freezer and the Leftovers: how long everything keeps, and how to label it
My Own Recipes: blank recipe cards to print, for the ones your mother never wrote down

Hazel's red notebook open beside her mother's tin measuring cup

Why I wrote these down

My mother cooked for six of us on a wheat and chicken farm in Marion County, Kansas, and she never wrote down a recipe in her life. When I asked her how much, she'd say "enough," and go on stirring.

The last winter she was with us, I stood beside her at the range with a measuring cup and made her drop every handful in my cup first. Her handful of flour was a scant half cup. Her pinch of salt was half a teaspoon. I wrote every one of them in a red notebook.

After my husband passed, I found out I didn't know how to cook for one. I never really learned; most weeks I still cook for four and freeze three. But one of Mother's little tin bread pans taught me the small suppers for the nights in between, and I wrote those down in the same notebook. This book is that notebook, typed up so it outlasts the paper.

Hazel

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Print it at home on ordinary letter paper, or print only the recipe you're making tonight.
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Hazel's Kansas Farm Kitchen

135 recipes for one or two · large-print PDF, regular PDF and e-book

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Hazel's Kansas Farm Kitchen and Hazel's Feed-Sack Quilt Book (40 farm quilt blocks, every story and every measurement). Bought one by one, they're $54.

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Questions people ask

Is this a printed book?

No. It is a download: two PDFs and an e-book. You can read it on a screen or print it yourself. Nothing is shipped.

Is it really for one person?

Nearly every recipe makes one or two servings, and every recipe says how much it makes. Where one makes more, like a pot of beans or a batch of cookies, it tells you how to freeze the rest.

Do I need special pans?

No. A 9 x 5 loaf pan, a skillet, a small saucepan and a baking sheet. A small slow cooker if you have one. I'd ask you to buy one thing: a kitchen thermometer, so you know your meat is done.

How big is the large print?

About the size of the print in a large-print library book. If you'd rather have more on each page, the regular edition comes with it at no extra cost.

Are the measurements American?

Yes. Cups, spoons, ounces and degrees Fahrenheit, the way they're written on a Kansas recipe card.

Is it a diet book?

No. It's farm cooking, cut down to size. If your doctor has you on a special diet, follow your doctor.

How do I pay, and is it safe?

With a credit or debit card. Payment is handled by Gumroad, a company that sells books and patterns for thousands of small makers. I never see your card number.

What if I can't open it or can't print it?

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