American Cookery 1796 - Softcover

Simmons, Amelia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1520177658 ISBN 13: 9781520177656

Publisher: Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

Amelia Simmons worked as a domestic in Colonial America and gathered her cookery expertise from firsthand experience. Her book points out the best ways of judging the quality of meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, etc., and presents the best methods of preparing and cooking them. In choosing fish, poultry, and other meats, the author wisely advises, «their smell denotes their goodness.» Her sound suggestions for choosing the freshest and most tender onions, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, asparagus, lettuce, cabbage, beans, and other vegetables are as timely today as they were nearly 200 years ago.Here are the first uniquely American recipes using corn meal - Indian pudding, «Johnny cake,» and Indian slapjacks - as well as the first recipes for pumpkin pudding, winter squash pudding, and for brewing spruce beer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1520177658
• ISBN 13: 9781520177656
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 59