Our First Cookbook Is Here: The Pumpkin Bakery

There is a box of books on the kitchen table this morning, and I keep picking one up to make sure it is real. It is. The Pumpkin Bakery: Farmhouse Recipes for Market Mornings from the Kansas Prairie is out, and signed copies are shipping from Newton.

We wrote it at this same table over the winter, between seed orders. More than forty recipes, every one of them tested on the people who line up at our farmers market booth on Saturday mornings. If you have eaten a Prairie Pumpkin Muffin or a Pumpkin Snickerdoodle off our table this year, the recipe is in here. So is the signature bread, the cinnamon rolls, and the pie we make from Dickinson pumpkins.

What is in it

It opens with the pumpkins themselves, a master roasted puree, and the Prairie Spice Blend everything else leans on, then moves through six chapters: Morning at the Market, Breads of the Prairie, The Cookie Jar, Bars, Cakes & Sweet Endings, Rolls, Buns & Pastry, and The Pantry & Gift Table. 112 pages, full color, every recipe photographed, and an index in the back so you can actually find things.

Most of the pumpkin in this book started as a seed we sell. That was sort of the point. Grow the pie pumpkin, then bake it out of the chapter it belongs to.

Three ways to get it

The signed paperback is $24.99. Both of us sign every copy before it goes in the mailer, and it ships from Newton. The Digital Edition PDF is $12.99 and lands in your inbox a couple of minutes after checkout, for whatever screen is already propped against the flour canister. And if you would rather have Prime shipping, the unsigned paperback is on Amazon.

For gifting, explore the Baker's Garden Set: a signed paperback with Dickinson and Long Island Cheese seed packets. Coffee is not included. The Market Morning coffee set is no longer available.

Everything about it is on the cookbook page, chapter by chapter.

A small ask

If you get a copy and bake something out of it, tell us how it went. A photo, a note, a review wherever you bought it. This is a small book from a small kitchen, and word of mouth is most of how it will find its way to the next table.

Thank you for reading along this year. Coffee is on. There is something in the oven by six.

Christopher and Margaret, Newton, Kansas