[libertarian27]

Last year I posted all the weekly national food holidays that I found on the site “GoneTaPott”(weird name), so this year I thought I’d post old cookbooks that are online.

This Cookbook link below is from the ‘Feeding America -The Historic American Cookbook Project’ -a site that categorizes old cookbooks.

~enjoy~

“American Cookery”

By Amelia Simmons
Hartford: Printed for Simeon Butler, Northampton, (1798)
Introduction

American Cookery, or the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake: Adapted to this country, and all grades of life.

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/books/americancookery/amer.html

[libertarian27]

I was just skimming through the "American Cookery" cookbook link above and bumped into this.

Garlicks, though used by the French, are better adapted to the uses of medicine than cookery.

I don't think I could have survived eating a meal in 1798 :>)

[bgill]

These old cookbooks are such fun reads. Thanks.

Ah, I've found my next million! Mouthwash for partridges. Just think about it. Many diseases originate from bad gum care so adding Listerine to poultry water would help in all around health. Of course, the orange flavored would be far superior to the original or mint in the final table bird taste test.

Cabbages have a higher relish that grow on new unmanured grounds; if grown in an old town and on old gardens, they have a rankness, which at times, may be perceived by a fresh air traveller

Here's hoping modern day sanitation has improved cabbage growing for the city gardeners.

Best I can figure out is neets/neats are animals, usually cattle, with hooves? Hence, the foot pie. But not the hooves so maybe the lower part of the leg that's not so meaty?

A sick bed Custard. Scald a quart of milk, sweeten and salt a little, whip 3 eggs and stir in, bake on coals in a pewter vessel.

Uh, if I'm already sick then the pewter dish would hasten the trip to the graveyard.

3 teaspoons of ashes in the Christmas cookie recipe? If I'm going to forget them in the oven, do I really need this ingredient?

In dressing all sorts of kitchen garden herbs, take care they are clean washed; that there be no small snails, or caterpillars between the leaves

Especially if you're guests are vegan.