Title: Seeking the historical cook : exploring eighteenth-century southern foodways /
Authors: Moss, Kay,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cooking Southern States History; Cooking, American Southern style History; Food habits Southern States History; Cooking; Cooking, American Southern style.; Food habits; Southern States
Abstract: "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"--Dust jacket.
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.