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Eating the plates : a pilgrim book of food and manners / by Lucille Recht Penner ; with illustrations selected by the author.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 n.717
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penner, Lucille Recht.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Food habits.
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony).
- Cooking, American--Juvenile literature.
- Cooking, American.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Literature.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 117 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1991.
- Summary:
- Discusses the eating habits, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims in the colony of New Plymouth.
- Contents:
- Introduction: good-bye forever
- bugs for dinner
- a land of plenty?
- eating on the run
- welcome!
- the heart of the house
- we all scream for pudding
- what's cooking?
- don't throw your bones on the floor
- waring the plates
- help yourself: a pilgrim menu from soup to nuts
- fresh corn soup
- red pickled eggs
- hot indian pudding
- succotash stew
- spicy cucumber catsup
- bannock cakes
- whole baked pumpkin stuffed with apples
- bearberry jelly
- swizzle
- hot nuts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-113) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Penner, Lucille Recht. Eating the plates.
- ISBN:
- 0027709019
- 9780027709018
- 0689815417
- 9780689815416
- OCLC:
- 21376849
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