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A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770

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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.

As a distant relative of Harriott Pinckney Horry, the book was great as an insight to daily life on a plantation.