1881 American home-made cooking

More than a century of wholesome and delicious American home cooking!

Find out the origin of today’s cooking in America

“Every time I read it, I travel back in time – a delicious journey that I had to share!” -- Website Publisher

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Travel back in time: Prepare a century-old: Breakfast – “Egg toast” – easy and quick breakfast for the entire family. Fish & Shellfish – "Fricasseed Oyster" – homemade recipes for fish, crabs, oysters and much more. Meat – Variety of delicious, easy-to-prepare suppers the way they were originally made. Soup – For all seasons, especially winter. A belly-warming, nutritious lunch or dinner. Dessert – Variety of delicious, easy-to-prepare sweets to enjoy after a meal. Bread – Oh my! So many recipes to choose from. Yummy! And much more.
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Read more about this book: Forward, Preface

This rare cookbook is over a century old, with recipes dating back many centuries more, a heritage goldmine.
The first-of-its-kind, 1881 cookbook published under the category of “Domestic Economy” in Baltimore Maryland.

The book is the one of the only known copies to have survived!

This cookbook was published in 1881, perhaps for the first time in America, in Baltimore – a large, industrial, port city
on the Patapsco River, off the Chesapeake Bay, in Maryland. It is the grand-daddy of today’s “cookbooks” that have
lasted and grown into today’s “cookbook craze.” At the time, another purpose of the book was to equip the westward
settlers’ families and kitchens with a collection of recipes from home. The collections are offered by a group of the
town’s ladies’ and from family kitchens to help them eat well using seasonal availability and to prepare and store for
the cold winter, while staying healthy and strong.
The book also includes homemade remedies and medicines, some still used today, to help deal with many common
illnesses and injuries they encountered going west – to survive and push on.