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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Canadian Receipt Book: Containing over 500 Valuable Receipts for the Farmer and the Housewife, First Published in 1867

The Canadian Receipt Book: Containing over 500 Valuable Receipts for the Farmer and the Housewife, First Published in 1867

Rubio, Jen
McAfee, Melissa

Paperback

Food WritingCanadian History

ISBN10: 1772441244
ISBN13: 9781772441246
Publisher: Rocks Mills Pr
Published: Mar 12 2018
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At the time of Canadian Confederation, many Canadians were their own doctors, cooks, farmers, veterinarians, beekeepers, and even rat catchers. This survival guide, compiled fifteen decades ago, is a fascinating glimpse into Canadian life before modern conveniences. Melissa McAfee's fascinating preface notes that receipt is an older term, a set of instructions not only for cooking, but also for medicine and food preservation. In The Canadian Receipt Book, these receipts cover many tasks, some of which may seem hair-raising to the modern reader: removing worms from a cow's bronchial tubes may have been as important in 1867 as knowing how to make English-style tea cakes. Recipes for lemon pudding and rice snow-balls are found in one chapter; remedies for pig leprosy and a cow's mad staggers in another. The Receipt Book also contains business advertisements, a dizzying array from the moderately recognizable (insurance and jewellery) to the more dubious ( a drug warehouse advertisingcocoaine and liver syrup). Set to become a classic of early Canadian cooking and household management alongside Catherine Parr Trail, this page-turning collection reminds Canadians of the long distance we have travelled in 150 years.

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