The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796 by Amelia Simmons

Since a real copy of this cookbook will set you back thousands of dollars, you might want to consider this little reprint! The first uniquely American recipes using corn meal --Indian pudding, "Johny cake" and Indian slapjacks -- as well as tthe first recipes for pumpkin pudding and brewing spruce beer. The words "cookie" and "slaw" made their first appearance in this book. Includes a glossary to help you define many antiquated cooking terms like "wallop, frumenty and panniken".

Clean and tight, very good condition.

pub date: 1984 publisher: Dover pages: 50 format: Softcover sku: 413099 $9.95 Expected soon. [click to pre-order]