The Shaker Cookbook

by Caroline B. Piercy

Over 240 recipes representing the best of Shaker cooking, which focuses on using America's natural bounty. With black and white illustrations throughout as well as stories of Shaker life and history, this is a unique book that celebrates easy, natural, American cooking.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1953

Reviews

[elstaffe]

A few recipes I want to try, a slew of non sequiturs, and some retold Shaker history, with a green cover.

[Ellen Johnson]

will reserve my rating for after I've tried some recipes. Weird to 'read' a cookbook, but it was interesting to think about life on the frontier and the self-sufficiency of people back then. There was also a lot about living in community, and of course, the famous Shaker belief in doing whatevver they did to perfection. Nice find in a Habitat thrift store!

[theresa]

maybe it's weird to "read" a cookbook and an old one at that (circa 1953) but it was interesting for the history included. i found a few recipes that i would like to try out (lemon meringue pie, biscuits) so there's that.