The Home Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1552853489 ISBN 13: 9781552853481

Publisher: Whitecap Books, 2002

Synopsis

This 125th anniversary edition of a national culinary treasure belongs in every cookbook collection. Canada's 19th-century best-selling cookbook and first fund-raising cookbook is a landmark publication that changed culinary writing in Canada and helped to define Canadian cuisine. With recipes for everything from soups, salads and pickles to main courses, pies and puddings, this book features such classic dishes as Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Oyster Stew, Floating Island and the first printed recipe for Christmas Carrot Pudding. With additional information on dinner etiquette, social observances, menus and a special introduction by culinary historian Elizabeth Driver, this book is certain to remain a classic in homes for years to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Driver is an editor and writer who has spent over twenty years researching the culinary history of Canada and Britain. She is fascinated by the history of food and an avid collector of cookbooks and antique kitchenware. Elizabeth lives with her husband and two children in Toronto, where she is the Foodways Program Officer at Mongomery's Inn museum. She demonstrates such historic techniques as cooking on an open hearth, returning home most days with the smell of wood smoke on her clothes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitecap Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1552853489
• ISBN 13: 9781552853481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Driver Elizabeth