"The First American Cookbook" was delightful to receive. My brother (a retired Chef and Restauranteur) and I spend several days over our coffee reviewing the book, laughing at some of the things we remembered from our mother and grandmothers, and
I ended up ordering enough copies (16 total) for our daughters, grand-daughters, and a great-granddaughter for Christmas ("Hope chest" for the great-granddaughter). So many ingredients are "out of date", but several of the receipes were "straight out" of our paternal grandmother's reciepe box (which I have), containing reciepes she took to Alaska with her in 1890, when as newly weds she and grandpa went to Sitka, Alaska where he was a master-carpenter, and build much of the city of Skagway. Grandma ran a Boarding House, and told stories of a kindly gentleman who boarded with her . . . the legendary "Soapy Smith"........a gentleman with her and a quick draw when someone came onto his claim. Thanks for the memories!!!
Thanks for the memories!!!
Mary Jayne Stone
Portland, Oregon
Get more detail about The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796.
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