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The Kentucky housewife / by Lettice Bryan ; with a new introduction by Bill Neal.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX715.2.S68 B89 1991 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryan, Lettice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--Southern States.
- Cooking.
- Cooking, American.
- Kentucky--Social life and customs.
- Kentucky.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xii, [2], 456, [2] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
- Contents:
- Soups
- Beef
- Veal
- Mutton and Lamb
- Lamb
- Venison
- Pork, Dried Hams, &c.
- Poultry, Game, &c.
- Separate Receipts
- Plain Sauces, Catchups, &c.
- Fruit Sauces, or Accompaniments to Fresh Meats
- Flavored Vinegars
- Pickling
- Vegetables
- Eggs
- Puddings, Dumplings, &c.
- Pudding Sauces
- Pastry, etc.
- Cakes, &c.
- Icings, and Colorings for Cakes, &c.
- Warm Cakes, &c. for Breakfast and Tea
- Light Bread, Yeast, &c.
- Custards, Creams, &c.
- Sweet-Meats, &c.
- Butter, Cheese, &c.
- Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate
- Domestic Liquors, &c.
- Preparations for the Sick
- Cosmetics, Perfumeries, &c.
- Miscellaneous Receipts.
- Notes:
- "First cookbooks in America"--Jacket.
- "We learn from it not just one dish or another, but what foods were available in the 1820s, how women cooked and that it was women indeed who read this book ... how and when foods were eaten, how families entertained on the Aican frontier."-- Introduction.
- Reprint. Originally published: Cincinnati : Shepard & Stearns, 1839.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bryan, Lettice. Kentucky housewife.
- ISBN:
- 0872497356
- 9780872497351
- OCLC:
- 23612391
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