Mrs. Hill's Southern Practical Cookery and Receipt Book by Damon L Fowler

Mrs. Hill's Southern Practical Cookery and Receipt Book by Damon L Fowler

Originally published in 1867 as Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book this encyclopedic treasury of recipes, cooking advice, and household hints brims with insight into the culinary heritage of the South in general and Georgia in particular. With its return to print, the charming volume revises popular legends about the food ways of the Old South, revealing both the bounty of the Southern table and the expertise of the Southern cook.Annabella P. Hill (1810-1878), a socially prominent woman whose rural Georgia kitchen centered on an open fireplace, records the end of an age in American culinary history and adroitly chronicles the cookery of the South. She proves that nineteenth-century Southerners ate a veritable smorgasbord and that rural Southern cooks were more cosmopolitan in their culinary knowledge than has been previously thought. Many of the instructions here--including those for blending and roasting coffee beans--remain pertinent for the contemporary gourmand. To this portrait of Southern gastronomy, Damon L. Fowler adds a biographical sketch of Hill, an explanation of the customs that shaped her writings, and a glossary to assist in translating these time-honored recipes to the modern kitchen.

One of the best of the recent spate of historical cookbook reprintsA lengthy introduction by Damon L. Fowler displays impressive research, not only on the book and its author, but on cookbooks of that era. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Damon L. Fowler is a culinary historian and the author of six cookbooks, including Dining at Monticello, Classical Southern Cooking and the Savannah Cookbook.

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ISBN 13	9781570039898
ISBN 10	1570039895
Title	Mrs. Hill's Southern Practical Cookery and Receipt Book
Author	Damon L Fowler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of South Carolina Press
Year published	2011-01-30
Number of pages	504
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