Seeking the Historical Cook : Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways /

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"A guide to historical cooking techniques from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century receipt (recipe) books and an examination of how those methods can be used in kitches today"--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moss, Kay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
COOKING / History
Food habits.
Cooking, American > Southern style.
Cooking.
Food habits > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Cooking, American > Southern style > History > 18th century.
Cooking > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Southern States.
Cookbooks.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Discovering and recreating: a curious cook, that has a good fancy
  • Chapter 1. Interpreting historical receipts
  • Chapter 2. Developing an eighteenth-century mindset
  • Part II. Cookery methods: this most noble art and mystery
  • Chapter 3. From a pot of boiling water
  • Chapter 4. With a good bed of coals
  • Chapter 5. At the fireside
  • Part III. Collected receipts: foods of our ancestors, ancestors of our foods
  • Chapter 6. Soups, stews, and made dishes
  • Chapter 7. Vegetables: salads, potherbs, sauces, meagre dishes
  • Chapter 8. Special occasion foods
  • Chapter 9. Miscellanies, musings, and whimsies
  • Appendix A. Fireside advice
  • Appendix B. Ingredients defined: equivalents, measures, weights
  • Appendix C. Their usual and best food for breakfast and supper.

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