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The Kentucky Housewife
Because long-term storage of food was not as simple as it is today, a lot of the receipts deal with preserving food. When reading the titles of the receipts, the reader is struck by the variety of foods, especially in the meats. There are instructions for foods which we would now consider quite out of the ordinary, especially wild game, e.g., squirrels, rabbits, woodcocks, snipe, and redbirds. In order to avoid wasting any part of a butchered animal, there are receipts for cooking parts of the animals that I would expect contribute now to the ingredients of sausage or other blended meats. Besides receipts for normal consumption, other realities of life
crowd in. There are numerous receipts for preparing foods for the
sick. On a lighter note, there are receipts for cosmetics and
fragrances and miscellaneous receipts to produce common household
items.
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On the title page of this book is the statement "contains
nearly thirteen hundred full receipts." This is first a cookbook so
most are culinary although they are different from what would appear
in a cookbook today. Some are pretty basic, their apparent intent
being to get the food properly cooked without it being ruined. Where
embellishments are added, a quick skimming indicates that they are
limited in complexity.