The American Heritage Cookbook

by Eleanor Noderer, Helen Duprey Bullock

Features a variety of recipes for traditionally American dishes such as New England Clam Chowder, and Oysters Rockefeller

Genres: Cookbooks, History, Cooking, Reference, Nonfiction

245 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

Reviews

[Yuri Sharon]

I’ve had this book for over 50 years, and I am still exploring it. A good, old-style cookbook packed with hundreds of clearly formulated and well-written recipes. Sparing us the usual (often doctored) glossy photos, it repays long sessions of browsing for that extra twist that raises a common dish to an uncommon meal.

[Lucy Jeanette Hansen]

The soup and cookie recipes are really good, I've made several of them.

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Such a very, very, enjoyable read that this book now strongly demands that I put theory into practice. The recipes do ‘read well’ and are very practical: unlike modern books there is no excessive number of ingredients or equipment.

The historical anecdotes preceding many of the recipes are utterly fascinating; and make it very interesting, at least for the English dishes I know, to trace how recipes were taken and amended in light of local circumstances; availability of crops, kitchen utensils, etc.

The book is illustrated with what I take to be out of C19th? illustrations now out of copyright, because no credit is given for illustrations within the pages of this book, only for the cover (Harry Willock).