Seeking the Historical Cook Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways / Kay K. Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Kay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits.

Cooking, American--Southern style.

Cooking.

Food habits--Southern States--History--18th century.

Cooking, American--Southern style--History--18th century.

Cooking, American.

Cooking--Southern States--History--18th century.

Southern States.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2013]

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781611172607

1611172608

OCLC:

1243081056