Along with simply written recipes for roasting a pig and preparing corned beef, hasty pudding, carrot pie, buffalo tongue, and scores of other dishes, this fascinating book, with its lively and direct style, also offered 19th-century readers suggestions for treating chilblains and dysentery, cleaning white kid gloves, educating one's daughters, and much more.
The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796 by Amelia Simmons Exact reproduction of the first American-written cookbook published in the United States. Authentic recipes for colonial favorites — pumpkin pudding, winter squash pudding, spruce beer, Indian slapjacks, and more.
Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841 by Sarah Josepha Hale Engagingly written volume filled with scores of nutritious recipes and wide-ranging suggestions for the mid-19th-century housekeeper. Includes advice on selecting and preparing foods, health tips, cleaning accessories, dealing with help, and more.
The Book of Edible Nuts by Frederic, Jr. Rosengarten This fascinating look at the natural history of nuts examines their evolution in the world's food supply, and their botany, ecology, and cultivation. Tasty recipes and 370 photographs and illustrations.