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What Salem Dames Cooked

✍️ Esther C Mack Industrial School, Esther
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🏛 Applewood Books 📅 2012 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781429093149
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📝 Description: What Salem Dames Cooked

Collected in this charming book from 1910 are fascinating recipes from 1683 to 1900, interspersed with literary quotations about food and even a housekeeping tip or two.

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This book is strictly for the history enthusiast, not the weekend baker seeking immediate results. Readers expecting practical, easy-to-follow instructions will likely find the 1910 context and scattered literary quotes distracting rather than inspiring. It is a niche artifact for those who view cooking as historical research. However, for scholars of regional American cuisine, it offers an irreplaceable primary source perspective on how food writing evolved from simple instruction to cultural expression.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

This book is strictly for the history enthusiast, not the weekend baker seeking immediate results. Readers expecting practical, easy-to-follow instructions will likely find the 1910 context and scattered literary quotes distracting rather than inspiring. It is a niche artifact for those who view cooking as historical research. However, for scholars of regional American cuisine, it offers an irreplaceable primary source perspective on how food writing evolved from simple instruction to cultural expression.

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