Colonial Fireplace Cooking and Early American Recipes

Recipes for Irish coffee pudding, Shaker lemon pie, trifle, hot mustard bread, beef fruit stew, Wassail bowl, and dozens more are compiled into complete menu\-form for you.\n\n\nPut together authentic Victorian, Plantation, Creole, Pennsylvania Dutch, Irish, Northwestern, and Smoky Mountain meals in your kitchen. Try your hand at fireplace cooking with three complete Early American meals. All menus and recipes were researched and compiled for use by an expert teacher for her students in Early American cookery. Originally published by Eberly Press.

Dr. Carole Mary Eberly, a graduate of Michigan State University's School of Journalism, began her career as a general assignment reporter at the Charlevoix Courier. She later became news editor for radio station WHMI in Howell before being hired as a state capital correspondent for United Press International, where she covered all branches of government for more than five years. Carole started Eberly Press in 1977 which published books filled with Michigan lore and recipes. She was awarded MSU's College of Communications Arts & Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award in 1981 and the National Federation of Press Women's Communicators of Achievement for 2006, the group's highest honor.