American Cookery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Cookery write by Amelia Simmons. This book was released on 2012-10-16. American Cookery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eighteenth century kitchen reference is the first cookbook published in the U.S. with recipes using local ingredients for American cooks. Named by the Library of Congress as one of the eighty-eight “Books That Shaped America,” American Cookery was the first cookbook by an American author published in the United States. Until its publication, cookbooks used by American colonists were British. As author Amelia Simmons states, the recipes here were “adapted to this country,” reflecting the fact that American cooks had learned to prepare meals using ingredients found in North America. This cookbook reveals the rich variety of food colonial Americans used, their tastes, cooking and eating habits, and even their rich, down-to-earth language. Bringing together English cooking methods with truly American products, American Cookery contains the first known printed recipes substituting American maize for English oats; the recipe for Johnny Cake is the first printed version using cornmeal; and there is also the first known recipe for turkey. Another innovation was Simmons’s use of pearlash—a staple in colonial households as a leavening agent in dough, which eventually led to the development of modern baking powders. A culinary classic, American Cookery is a landmark in the history of American cooking. “Thus, twenty years after the political upheaval of the American Revolution of 1776, a second revolution—a culinary revolution—occurred with the publication of a cookbook by an American for Americans.” —Jan Longone, curator of American Culinary History, University of Michigan This facsimile edition of Amelia Simmons's American Cookery was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1812.
American Cookery
American Cookery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Cookery write by Amelia Simmons. This book was released on 1996. American Cookery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Cookery was the first cookbook in America. Reproduced here is the rare second edition printed in 1796. We have added a new introduction by noted food historian Karen Hess.
American Cookery
American Cookery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Cookery write by Amelia Simmons. This book was released on 2022-05-28. American Cookery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, is the first known cookbook written by an American. It teaches how to prepare fish, poultry, vegetables, as well as the making of pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, preserves and all kinds of cakes.
The Compleat Housewife
The Compleat Housewife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Compleat Housewife write by Eliza Smith. This book was released on 2012-10-16. The Compleat Housewife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.
The First American Cookbook
The First American Cookbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First American Cookbook write by Amelia Simmons. This book was released on 2013-09-26. The First American Cookbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exact reproduction of the first American-written cookbook published in the United States. Authentic recipes for colonial favorites — pumpkin pudding, winter squash pudding, spruce beer, Indian slapjacks, and more.
