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Catharine Parr Traill's The female emigrant's guide : cooking with a Canadian classic

Cooke, Nathalie, editor, Lucas, Fiona, editor

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\"What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee - this was an ordinary backwoods meal in Victorian-era Canada. Originally published in 1855, Catharine Parr Traill's classic Female Emigrant's Guide, with its admirable recipes, candid advice, and astute observations of local food sourcing, offers an intimate glimpse into the daily domestic and seasonal routines of settler life. This toolkit for historical cookery, redesigned and annotated in an edition for use in contemporary kitchens, provides readers with the resources to actively use and experiment with recipes from the original Guide. Containing modernized recipes, a measurement conversion chart, and an extensive glossary, this volume also includes discussions of cooking conventions, terms, techniques, and ingredients that contextualize the social attitudes, expectations, and challenges of Traill's world and the emigrant experience. In a distinctive and witty voice expressing her can-do attitude, Catharine Parr Traill's Female Emigrant's Guide unlocks a wealth of information on historical foodways and culinary exploration, now in a format for the twenty-first century.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: Traill, Catherine Parr, 1802-1899. / Cooking Canada History 19th century. / Cooking, Canadian History 19th century. / Food Canada History 19th century. / Dinners and dining Canada History 19th century. / Kitchens Canada History 19th century. / Cuisine Canada Histoire 19e siècle. / Cuisine canadienne Histoire 19e siècle. / Aliments Canada Histoire 19e siècle. / Repas Canada Histoire 19e siècle. / Cuisines Canada Histoire 19e siècle. / Canada Social life and customs 19th century. / Canada Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
• ISBN: 9780773549296, 9780773549302

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TX715.6.C381 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE