California Gold Rush Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes) [Library Binding]

Golden Schroeder (Author), Lisa (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, common foods, and hardships and celebrations during the Gold Rush in California. Includes recipes.

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From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6-Eight or nine recipes are interspersed throughout these informative texts. All include full-page period photographs and illustrations. In Nineteenth-Century Whaling Ships, the first meal is cabbage and Irish potatoes, because it calls for what would be the freshest ingredients on board. Not to worry: no recipes call for whale blubber or oil. Most tend toward the complicated and adult help will be needed (and appreciated). Phrase origins for the likes of "slush fund" (money paid for leftover grease in whaler speak) and "skid row" (initially skid road in logging parlance) are included. Students might find it interesting to compare the information in these titles. For example, while the whaling ship's cooks were among the lowest ranked on board, the lumber camp's cook was the most important crew member, after the foreman. These books are just as tempting, perhaps more so, for their historical ingredients as for the recipes. Palatable history.
Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Capstone Press (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736806032
• ISBN-13: 978-0736806039
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,388,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Golden Recipes, February 26, 2002

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This review is from: California Gold Rush Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes) (Library Binding)

This is a small book but has a total of 8 recipes to try. I have made 18K Hash twice, and it's simple and good tasting! An easy book for the younger people to read and tells you what type of equipment needed to make each meal. Also provides history of the gold rush and why certain food was made. A good book to have of the bookself and use from time to time! I really liked this book but wished it could have had even more recipes in it.