A Farm Family Cookbook for Everyday Tables, Holiday Gatherings, and Generations to Come
The food you remember, made for the life you live.
Remington Roots is a farm family cookbook filled with more than 300 simple, dependable recipes, practical kitchen wisdom, and stories from the land, made for everyday meals, full tables, packed freezers, and the people you love to feed.
The farmhouse cookbook you actually cook from.
Across 24 chapters, Remington Roots moves from appetizers through canning and freezing. It is filled with food for ordinary weeknights, holiday gatherings, houses full of guests, and the days when being prepared makes all the difference.
This is not a cookbook meant to sit untouched on a shelf. It is made to stay open on the counter.
For anyone who wants to feed their people well.
From the sugar camp to the supper table.
The recipes are woven together with real family history.
Five generations of Schencks have made maple syrup at the family sugar camp. A grandmother’s custard recipe appeared on a Rose Acre egg carton. A family cookie recipe won a statewide contest at the Indiana State Fair. Other recipes were gathered from elderly aunts before the chance to ask them was gone. Wild game recipes come from the Labor Day dove hunt and the deer and duck seasons that follow it, food built for the fifty to a hundred people who show up to hunt and stay to eat.
The stories are part of why the food matters.
More than recipes
Food you remember, made for life now
Dependable family food, with practical adaptations for the way people eat today.
Feed your people
Recipes and plans for everyday meals, holiday tables, and a crowd.
Know-how to provide
Freezer strategy, food safety, water-bath canning, and the practical lessons that build confidence in a kitchen.
Roots that hold
Rooted in generations of family life, shaped by faith, hard work, and the kind of love that shows up.
A living heirloom
A “This Book Belongs To” page, margin prompts, and room for your own notes make the book part of your family’s record, too.
Heritage food, with room for everyone.
Many recipes carry a Healthy tag with gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined-sugar-free adaptations. They are included so nobody has to leave the table or give up the food that feels like home.
Arriving this fall
Preorders open through this website in October. A signed First Harvest Edition will be available, with shipping and local pickup options. Books will arrive in time for Christmas.