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This review is from: A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770 (Hardcover)
I love old cookbooks, but I found this one disappointing. First of all the book is very small in size and very thin, so there isn't much to it. The price is too high. It contains 124 recipes for mostly food, and a few for things like insect control and soap, etc.
Most of the recipes have some of the ingredients given in pounds, ounces, quarts or pints, but other ingredients in the same recipe aren't given in a standard measurement and would have to be guessed at. The directions are far from clear as the editor did not make any changes to the original author's writing, which is good from a historical standpoint, but makes the recipes hard to understand. There is only one recipe that I might attempt to make, and it's a recipe that someone other than the original author of the recipe book wrote in the book. It's much more clear and straight forward. The best thing about this book is the introduction, which gives a brief, but interesting, history of the author.
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A Colonial Plantation Cookbook,
This review is from: A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770 (Hardcover)
As a distant relative of Harriott Pinckney Horry, the book was great as an insight to daily life on a plantation.
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In 1770 a young South Carolina woman, recently married, wrote her name and the date on the first page of a book of blank pages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one word illegible, lemon peal, strong gravy, little rose water, quick till, stew pan, salt peter, peach kernels, whole pepper, loaf sugar, sweet herbs, orange flower water Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Martha Washington's Booke, Hannah Glasse, Eight Eggs, The Experienced English Housekeeper, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, French Beans, Gardiner's Receipts, Harriott Horry, Indian Pickle, New York, Spring Water New!
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- Home by the River by Archibald Rutledge in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Virginia House-Wife by Mary Randolph in Front Matter, and page 54
- The Carolina Housewife by Sarah Rutledge in Front Matter, and page 86
- English Bread and Yeast Cookery (Revised) by Elizabeth David on page 82, and page 104
- The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse on page 85, and page 86
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- Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Great Pies & Tarts by CAROLE WALTER in Back Matter
- A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology (New Studies in Archaeology) by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch in Back Matter
- The American Century Cookbook by Jean Anderson in Back Matter
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