18th-C Cookbook for America250

[Mary Anne Eves]

“The Pennsylvania Housewife English Household Receipts in the Middle Colonies” a cookbook of 18th-C foods perfect for home or historic sites.

 

In 2003, a group of hearth cooks from a variety of historic sites in and around Philadelphia compiled a cooking manual comprised of tried-and-true receipts used to exemplify and reproduce what would have been made on hearths and in fire pits in the Mid-Atlantic region of America during the colonial period.  This group of experienced hearth cooks was known as the PAST MASTERS in Early American Domestic Arts.

 

The copyright for this book was recently transferred to the Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley (HFSDV) and we are now once again making this classic hearth cooking manual widely available for purchase.

 

It is perfect for hearth cooks, reenactors, food historians and home cooks interesting in recreating period recipes (or receipts as they were known in the 18th-C).  Besides receipts, the manual offers advice on how to cook authentically with only seasonal ingredients and hints on which foods to avoid because they were not yet used during the colonial period.  The manual provides modern substitutions for Eighteenth-century ingredients no longer available, measurements, presentation advice, and proper equipment and tool recommendations.

 

The manual is available to HFSDV members for $26.00 for members plus $5 shipping and handling, or $30.00 for non-members plus $5 for shipping and handling.  To order the cookbook, become a member or to see past and upcoming programs, visit our https://www.historicfoodways.org/

 

For those interested in buying multiple copies at reduced costs to use or sell at your sites, please contact Cindy Faulkner at sideca...@gmail.com

Mary Anne Eves
Vice President, Middletown Township Historical Society
www.mthsdelco.org