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Field name | Value |
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Reference | TX715 .T767 1883 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | The Pentucket housewife: a manual for housekeepers, and collection of recipes / contributed by the ladies of the First Baptist church, Haverhill, Mass. |
Author/Creator | Train, Carrie W. |
Date | 1883 |
Collection | African American |
Collection Overview | There are over 200 African American cookbooks in the collection dating from the early 19th century to the present. The earliest is a first edition of Robert Roberts, The House Servant’s Directory (1827), the first cookbook written by a Black American and first book on any subject written by a Black American to have been printed by a commercial publisher. Additionally there are charity cookbooks, Black dialect items, and celebrity cookbooks. The collection is complemented by strong holdings in Caribbean cookery and African cookery. |
Place of Publication | Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA |
Publisher | Chase Brothers |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook; Domestic Cookbook; Community Cookbook |
Theme | Food and Gender; Food Preparation; Global and Ethnic Cuisines |
Subjects | advice to housekeepers housekeeper gender: female household household management housework recipes cooking techniques vegetables seafood commodity: eggs spices condiments commodity: bread baking fruit desserts ice cream canning and preserving pickling confectionery beverages tea coffee cooking for the sick household remedies |
Cuisine | American cuisine; New England cuisine |
Countries | United States of America |
Places | Haverhill Massachusetts |
Additional Information | Includes an appendix of additional recipes, a page of corrections, and advertising matter. "Each chapter has a poetic introduction, and all of the recipes are signed. Among the recipes, many of which reflect New England cooking, are Parker House tomato soup, bean porridge, fricassee of oysters, gulash, A Black Man's recipe to dress rice (page 43), squash Indian cake, bramberries, and corn starch hasty pudding. In the chapter titled Fragments, there are recipes for remnants of beef, fish, pork, and vegetables. There is a chapter on laundry, and one of miscellaneous receipts" (book dealer's blurb). |
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