登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
The Kitchen Directory, and American Housewife
American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
出版
Andrews McMeel Publishing
, 2014-04-15
主題
Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / General
Cooking / History
Cooking / General
ISBN
1449435793
9781449435790
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eQt8AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
SAMPLE
註釋
The first edition of this very popular nineteenth century cookbook was published in 1839 as
The American Housewife
, later expanded to
The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife
and often republished as
The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory
. Author Anne Howe’s name did not appear on the title page until later editions published after this 1841 version. Her preface states that although she is not an Ude (French chef) or a Kitchiner (popular British cookbook author), she knows the culinary arts as “practiced by good American cooks.” Bemoaning the inadequate instructions and limited practical knowledge expressed in other cookbooks, she presents over 350 recipes from the simplest broths to the most delicate cakes and sweetmeats with efficient instructions and practical economy.
In addition to her recipe collection, the book includes recipes on cookery for the sick and making perfumes, as well as sections on housewifery and carving that appear to be simply lifted from earlier works.
This edition of
The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife
was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher, the Society is a research library documenting the life of Americans from the colonial era through 1876. The Society collects, preserves, and makes available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.