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American cookery, or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making puff-pastes, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake, adapted to this country, and all grades of life by Simmons, Amelia is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is American cookery, or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making puff-pastes, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake, adapted to this country, and all grades of life about?

Named by the Library of Congress as one of the 88 "Books That Shaped America," American Cookery was the first cookbook by an American author published in the United States. Until its publication, cookbooks printed and used by American colonists were British. As indicated in Amelia Simmons & rsquo;s subtitle, the recipes in her book were & ldquo;adapted to this country, & rdquo; reflecting the fact that American cooks had learned to make do with what was available 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; and the recipe for Johnny Cake is apparently the first printed version using cornmeal. The book also contains the first known recipe for turkey. Possibly the most far-reaching innovation was Simmons & rsquo;s use of pearlash & mdash;a staple in colonial households as a leavening agent in dough, which eventually led to the development of modern baking powders. & ldquo;Thus, twen

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Simmons, Amelia
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781449423995
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Cooking, Home & Lifestyle

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