THE ATHENAEUMAmerican CookeryAmelia Simmons
Food History
American Cookery
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textPrinted in Hartford in 1796, this is the first known cookbook by an American published in the United States, by Amelia Simmons, an American orphan, as the title page says. It cooks with American things: corn meal, pumpkins, cranberries, and pearl ash to raise a dough. Its Indian pudding and johnny cake are written for American kitchens, not copied from English ones.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About an hour
- Where to find it
- On the Food History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #12815. In the public domain in the United States.