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The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of American Cookery, 1796

The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of American Cookery, 1796

Simmons, Amelia

Paperback

Cookbooks GeneralAmerican Cooking

Publisher Price: $5.95

ISBN10: 0486247104
ISBN13: 9780486247106
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Oct 1 1984
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

This facsimile of the first American-written cookbook published in the United States is not only a first in cookbook literature, but a historic document. It reveals the rich variety of food Colonial Americans enjoyed, their tastes, cooking and eating habits, even their colorful language.
Author 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.

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