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volume is filled with primary source information, over 30 period
receipts (recipes), and many color photographs. This book supports
many food-related imports into eighteenth-century Philadelphia.
Each entry gives brief documentation showing it was here in the
colonies. If the item is unusual, a receipt (or recipe as we call
them now) using the ingredient is supplied. (It's great to find
food-quality Isinglass, but it begs the question, now what do
I do with it? A receipt is helpfully provided!)
If you want to learn more about spices, coffee, tea, chocolate,
syrups, hartshorn, leavenings, isinglass, gums, sugar, salts,
peppers, oils, you should have this book! A great gift for any
foodie! Useful to have in any site's library! |