May
26
Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book
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Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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Originally published in 1886. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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This was far more interesting than I expected it to be. I love that it seems to be one of the very first cookbooks where they found it necessary to actually tell you how much of what to use and gave standardized measurements, of sorts.
Excellent information about beef and fish and other ingredients and a wonderful bit of insight into history. Some of the recipes would be fun to try even now, which I didn’t expect. The section on how to equip a kitchen was fun to read as well.
If you’re into old cookbooks or just like reading about food and they type of things they used in their kitchens back then, well worth the free download!
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I have a tendency to collect cookbooks, so I figured a free cookbook for my Kindle was at least worth a look. I had no idea how much I would enjoy this one. I have actually read it cover-to-cover, and though I’ve had to use the dictionary feature for several phrases in the book (for example, “Indian meal” seems to have been the term for “corn meal” during Miss Parloa’s era), I have highlighted more than a few recipes to try from this book.
Something to note is that the measurements are not quite as precise as you’d find nowadays (i.e., she calls for “butter the size of an egg” in several recipes), and there is never a temperature given for baking in the oven – rather, she uses terminology such as “cook in a moderate oven” (which I take to mean as somewhere around 350-375 degrees Fahrenheit) – so making some of these recipes will probably prove to be a bit of a challenge for even an experienced cook. But if you’re looking for real, from-scratch recipes the way your great-great-grandmother would have done it, this is a really great place to start.