Download or read book Family Baking Recipes Of Civil War Notables written by Robert Pelton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baking Recipes From & Historical Trivia About Civil War Notables is a unique collection of special recipes dating from the Civil War period of our history. It's a practical baking book as well as the modern person's guide to authentic baking recipes from the Civil War period. These recipes were popular, or at least regularly used before, during and just after the Civil War or War Between the States. Many come from women who so expertly made bread and other baked goods for the legendary fighting men with the Union. These would include Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Abner Doubleday of later baseball fame, as well as the renowned George Armstrong Custer. And they are the recipes used by mothers, wives and daughters of the Confederacy when they baked for their heroic leaders-men such as Generals Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and James Longstreet as well as others including Lieutenant Harry Buford (Loreta Janeta Velazquez) and the illustrious President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. Baking during the Civil War period was far from an easy task. The women of the house made an art out of making tasty loaves of bread, biscuits, pastry, pies, cakes, cookies, and all of their other homemade goodies. In those days, homemakers couldn't always purchase good flour. Every sack or barrel or bag might present new baking problems. Flour always had to be tested for quality before using it for baking. In the South, corn meal muffins, pound cake, rolls, cookies, pies, etc., were all baked in the oven of her wood stove. Good baking was simply a matter of experience. Women were able to satisfactorily prepare and bake these favorites with no reliable temperature gage. A good homemaker relied on how hot her oven "felt" when she was ready to bake. She simply stuck an arm in while counting 1001, 1002, 1003, etc. How hot her arm felt in a given number of seconds (or how long it took to scorch the hair on her arm) would determine whether or not her oven was at the correct temperature for whatever it was she wanted to bake. Homemakers of today, with all the modern conveniences in their kitchens, can hardly surpass the finished breads and cakes and pies baked so many years ago. Housewives of the mid-1800s baked, cooked, sewed, cleaned house and cut everyone's hair. She was the resident doctor of the house. And she was in charge of settling arguments by popping her kid's bottoms with the flat side of a cast iron skillet when a wooden paddle wasn't handy. Hot corn bread represented a Southern homemaker's hospitality. If cold corn bread was served, it was a sign that the particular guest was not welcome. This was her method of letting them know. Most of these baked items are not difficult to make. Each recipe has been updated for the convenience of today's homemaker. The end result will be exactly as it was for our Civil War ancestors. Every recipe in BAKING RECIPES & HISTORICAL TRIVIA ABGOUT CIVIL WAR NOTABLES is a classic in the historical sense. Each is known to have been a favorite of, or invention of, some family or individual that lived and loved and prayed while the Civil War raged on around them. Many were coveted treasures within a family, some famous, some not so famous, and handed down through the years or lost with the passage of time. Each delightful recipe is followed by often forgotten facts about the heroes and heroines of the as well as a few not so well known individuals. Also included are interesting biographical highlights about the person or family to whom the recipe is attributed. Each recipe was among the best used in the North and the South during the time the Civil War was raging. Here they are presented for the first time for today's American families to enjoy and experience the pleasure of preparing, baking and serving-just as it was done in the past.
Download or read book Cooking and Baking During the War of Northern Aggression written by Robert W. Pelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baking Recipes From the Wives & Mothers of Civil War Heroes, Heroines & Other Notables is a unique collection of special recipes dating from the Civil War period of our history. It's a practical baking book as well as the modern person's guide to authentic baking recipes from the Civil War period. These recipes were popular, or at least regularly used before, during and just after the Civil War or War Between the States. Can you resist baking and devouring a skillet of Spider Corn Cake as it was served to the family of President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis? Maybe you'd prefer to whip up a batch of delightful Yeast Rolls favored by General Nathan Bedford Forrest? And be sure to try General Robert E. Lee's favorite Huckleberry Pancakes? Each recipe is an authentic updated family recipe from the terrible period of the American Civil War.. .
Download or read book A Treasury of Civil War Family Recipes written by Robert Pelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Unique Collection of Family Recipes and Tidbits of History from Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee and Other Notables Involved in the War of Northern Aggression. Measurements for ingredients used in recipes used in the past would not be recognizable to more modern homemakers. Look at some of those called for in the recipes given above – 1 gill of milk; 1 dessertspoonful meat extract; a tumblerful of water; a dash of ground mace; 1 saltspoonful. What exactly would they mean today? Or for example, when busily scurrying around the kitchen and preparing a meal, who would be able to properly measure ingredients in such things as a wineglassful? Or a pound of milk or water? Then try a dram of liquid? What about a pound of eggs? To sum everything up, each recipe found in this unique cook book was once popular, or at least commonly used during the Civil War period. They were all part of the history of a particular family, or person, who lived and loved and prayed and fought through this tragic time of our great nation. Many were coveted treasures within a family, some famous, some not so famous, and handed down through the years or lost with the passage of time. Each recipe has been meticulously updated. When the recipe is used today, it will turn out exactly as it did for the woman of the house that prepared it for her family so many long years ago. Here they are presented for the first time for today's American families to enjoy and experience the pleasure of preparing, cooking, baking and serving – exactly as it was done in the past. And lastly, to thankfully pass a blessing over before eating – be it for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Download or read book Recipes of the Civil War written by Amy B. Rogers and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will enjoy making sweet potato pie, praline sauce, and other foods eaten during the Civil War as they learn about this important time in American history. Each recipe features step-by-step instructions presented in a clear way. Historical context is provided in the form of a captivating, fact-filled narrative about life during the Civil War. The accessible text is focused on food in this era, providing readers with a fresh perspective on a common social studies curriculum topic. Historical and contemporary images—including primary sources—add an exciting visual component to this reading experience.
Download or read book The Civil War Cookbook written by William C. Davis and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Civil War buff will want to own this unique cookbook, which takes the reader right into the kitchens of 19th-century America. Illustrated with wonderful period photographs, it intertwines history and food for a fascinating new look at the lives of Civil War soldiers and their families. Traditional recipes, illustrated with full-color photographs and highlighted with historical anecdotes, include instructions for recreating treats sent in care packages to soldiers in the field, camp dishes, and special meals.
Download or read book Cooking and Baking During the Civil War written by Robert W. Pelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Period Cookery is chock full of delightfully delicious cooking ideas favored by many famous people of days long past. It contains the prized recipes for those dishes cooked by or eaten by some of the better known as well as lesser known figures from the Civil War era of our glorious history. Included are recipes for tasty breads and interesting baked goods, skillet southern fried chicken and really good poultry dishes. Here you will also be treated to many taste-tempting soups, stews and stuffings -- and, yes, even pickles as well as loads of other wonderful things. Or you may wish to try some buttermilk pie, an array of wonderful desserts, rhubarb punch and other delightful beverages. Then make the unique corn bread with a streak of delicious custard running through it. Yes you can now enjoy a meal exactly like that eaten by those who wore both the blue and the gray during the War Between the States - or as some unreconstructed Southerners still refer to it - the War of Northern Aggression. To sum everything up. each recipe found in this unique cook book was once popular, or at least commonly used during the Civil War period. They were all part of the history of a particular family, or person, who lived and loved and prayed and fought through this tragic time of our great nation. Many were coveted treasures within a family, some famous, some not so famous, and handed down through the years or lost with the passage of time. Each recipe has been meticulously updated. When the recipe is used today, it will turn out exactly as it did for the woman of the house who prepared it for her family so many long years ago. Here they are presented for the first time for today's American families to enjoy and experience the pleasure of preparing, cooking, baking and serving - exactly as it was done in the past. And lastly, to thankfully pass a blessing over before eating - be it for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Download or read book Historical Christmas Cooking and Baking in America written by Robert Pelton and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Christmas Cooking and Baking in America is chock full of delightfully delicious cooking ideas favored by many famous families of yesteryear. It contains the prized recipes for those Christmas dishes served and eaten by some of the early settlers in the American Colonies. Here will be found the favorite Yuletide dishes of some of the heroes of the Revolutionary War. You'll be able to fix and then eat the same things served to those great men who so bravely signed the Declaration of Independence and those involved in writing and signing our great Constitution. You'll be able to sample the identical food eaten at Christmas by those foreign heroes who volunteered to fight and die for our freedom. And lastly, you can enjoy sharing an identical Christmas meal with those who wore both the blue and the gray during the War Between the States, or as some unreconstructed Southerners still refer to it, the War of Northern Aggression.. Included are recipes for tasty Christmas breads and many other kinds of baked goods, really good meat and poultry dishes, soups and stews and stuffings - and, yes, even pickles as well as loads of other wonderful things. Here you'll also be treated to the Christmas favorites of such historical luminaries as Declaration of Independence signer, Elbridge Gerry, who dearly loved his poultry dishes accompanied by a special sausage stuffing. Or the hollandaise sauce enjoyed by John Quincy Adams with his cauliflower. And that special Christmas sourdough fruit cake made by the wife of the famed Confederate General, "Fighting Joe" Hooker.A unique old-fashioned method for making yeast from grape leaves was handed down by my Great-great grandmother, Huldah Radike Horton. This is the recipe she used in making the bread she served to her family every Christmas for many years. And it was used to make the bread she served to General Lafayette (1757-1834) when she entertained him at her home in Newburg, New York in 1823. Measurements were given in the past in ways that present day cooks wouldn't be expected to be at all familiar. Who today for example when busily scurrying around the kitchen would be able to accurately measure out a teacupful, a tincup, a dessertspoonful or butter the size of an egg when called for in a recipe? Now try butter the size of a walnut, a pound of eggs, a kitchencupful, or even a dram of liquid? Or how about half a tumbler, a saltspoonful, a gill, wineglassful or a pound of milk? Since this would create an insurmountable problem, all the recipes in Historical Christmas Cooking & Baking in America have been carefully updated so that when the recipe is used today it will turn out just as it did for the homemaker who prepared it for her family so many years ago. A compilation of the unique measurements used by housewives of the past with their today's counterparts can be found in Chapter 2 Measurements Used While Cooking and Baking In the Colonies., every recipe found in this unique book was a popular favorite throughout the Christmas holidays in our nation's long and colorful history. Many were coveted within a particular family and handed down from generation to generation. Others are historical gems, for they were the inventions of, or the favorites of, some notable family or individual from the past. Here they are being presented, for the first time for America's families of today to have the fun and experience the thrill of cooking and baking. And lastly, to thankfully pass a blessing over before eating - be it for breakfast, lunch or dinner - on Christmas Day.
Download or read book Civil War Recipes written by Lily May Spaulding and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gody's Lady's Book was a popular magazine for women in nineteenth -century America. The recipes it published were submitted by women from the North and South. This collection of recipes "includes information on Union and confederate army rations, cooking on both homefronts, and substitutions used during the war by Southern cooks" (Jacket).
Download or read book Baking Recipes of Civil War Heroes Heroines written by Robert W. Pelton and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baking Recipes and Home Remedies from the Time of the War for American Independence written by Robert Pelton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baking in the American Colonies was far from an easy task. In fact, it was an incredibly complicated endeavor, and certainly not one to be taken lightly. The women of the house made quite an art out of baking tasty loaves of bread, pastry, pies, cakes, cookies, and all of their other homemade goodies. Large brick ovens, found in every home of the brave and hearty new immigrants had been left behind in England, Ireland and Scotland. The new settlers in America couldn't at first find much clay for making bricks. Certainly none could be found along the desolate shores of the broad Atlantic where the Pilgrims landed. And the Colonists were not at first equipped to manufacture bricks. Therefore, bricks were scarce in the new land. Not only were homemakers expected to know how to prepare the mixtures, they also had to make certain the fireplace was hot enough for baking. The coals had to be raked and banked and ready for cooking. Should the fire go out, a family member was handed a "fire spoon" and told to rush over to a neighbor and borrow some hot coals to start a new fire. Cooking? Yes, cooking, because most baking was initially done by placing the bread or cake or rolls directly on the smoldering coals. Or it was later done by placing the baked goods in front of the hearth in a dutch oven. Many other recipes handed down through a family were no more than a simple a handwritten list of ingredients. There were no instructions telling the woman of the house what to do with them. Mothers and daughters in the Colonies were expected to already know how to properly mix the ingredients. Susannah Carter became a household name in the kitchens of almost every Colonial housewife. Her popular cookbook, The Fruigal Housewife or Female Companion was reprinted in 1772 Boston. The man credited with making the printing plates for this cookbook might have otherwise been forgotten. But he was later made a legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's when he wrote his fabled "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."
Download or read book Civil War Cooking written by Susan Dosier and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses everyday life, cooking methods, foods, and celebrations of Union soldiers during the Civil War. Includes recipes.
Download or read book Historical Thanksgiving Cooking and Baking written by Robert Pelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipe measurements in years gone by were given in ways that present day cooks aren't at all familiar: teacupful, wineglassful, tincupful, a kitchencupful, 1⁄2 a tumbler, 1 dram liquid, dessertspoonful, saltspoonful, butter the size of a walnut, pound of eggs, pound of milk, gill, etc. Therefore, all the recipes herein have been carefully updated. The old measurements have been carefully converted to the measurements we now use. When one of these recipes is tried today, it will turn out just as it did for the lady of the house who prepared it for her family so many long years ago. Here is a list of a few of the more interesting old measurements often used by homemakers and others during the Civil War period. The original measurement is initially given and then followed by its modern day equivalent: Pound of eggs 14 Small eggs 10 medium eggs 9 large eggs Pound of solid fat 1 pint Pound of milk 1 pint Dessertspoonful 2 teaspoons Saltspoonful 1⁄4 teaspoon Kitchencupful 1 cup Coffeecupful 1 cup Teacupful 3⁄4 cup Wineglassful 4 tablespoons Tumblerful 1⁄2 pint Gill 1⁄2 cup Dash 1/8 teaspoon Dram of fluid 1 teaspoon Some old baking recipes might call for German Yeast, Compressed Yeast, Patent Yeast or Brewers Yeast. Others might have been made at home using potatoes, hops or grape leaves. Old-time recipes using homemade yeasts were made much more practical for today's homemaker by simply substituting modern versions of yeast - those small packets we can purchase in any supermarket or grocery store. Most early American recipes, as they were originally written, would be extremely difficult, if not in some cases impossible, to use with any degree of ease or accuracy. Such recipes were most often written as one long and rather complicated paragraph. Sometimes they were simply a long list of ingredients with many of them unknown to today's homemakers. But in days gone by, a housewife was expected to know exactly what to do in order to achieve the desired end result. Historical Thanksgiving Cooking and Baking in America is chock full of delightfully delicious cooking ideas which were favored by many famous families of yesteryear. It contains the favorite Thanksgiving dishes of many well known as well as lesser known figures from the Colonies, the Revolutionary War period and the Civil War period of our glorious history. Included are delicious breads and other scrumptious baked goods, taste-tempting poultry and meat dishes, soups and stews and loads of other wonderful old-time recipes. To sum everything up, every recipe found in this unique cook book was popular, or at least commonly used, during the Thanksgiving holidays in the long forgotten past. Many were coveted within a particular family and handed down from generation to generation. Others are historical gems for they were the inventions of, or the favorites of, some notable family or family member of long ago. Here they are presented, for the very first time, for America's families of today to have the fun and experience the thrill of cooking and baking. And lastly, to thankfully pass a blessing over before eating - be it breakfast, lunch or dinner on Thanksgiving Day.
Download or read book Authentic Cooking Recipes During Civil War Era written by Isidra Mochel and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food in the Civil War era was some of the original farm-to-table cuisine, made from seasonal, small batch ingredients found in the immediate vicinity. When the country was catapulted into depression following the war, cooks had to get creative with what few ingredients they had on hand. In this book, you will discover: - Appetizers & Condiments - Tomato Catsup - Cucumber Catsup - Walnut Catsup - Salad Dressing_(1870). - Beverages - Crème De Menthe - Cream Soda (Without a fountain) - Lemonade to Carry in your Pocket - Old Virginia Eggnog - Robert E. Lee Punch - Root Beer - And so much more! Get your copy today!
Download or read book Family Baking Recipes of the Signers written by Robert W. Pelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baking in the American Colonies was far from an easy task. The women of the house made quite an art out of baking tasty loaves of bread, pastry, pies, cakes, cookies, and all of their other homemade goodies. In those days, homemakers couldn't always buy good flour. Almost every sack or barrel presented new baking problems. Flour always had to be tested for quality before using.In those days, the wood heated oven was not nearly as efficient as those used today. The method of measuring oven heat in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was simple but effective. Baking was always a matter of guess. The homemaker relied on when it "felt" hot enough to bake in. If the heat was excessive, it scorched the inquiring hand.Consider the fact that the first Colonial women didn't have any sort of an oven in which to do her baking. Big ovens of brick, always ready for baking, had been left behind in their old homes by the settlers. In the new land bricks were scarce. There was little known clay obtainable for brick making. Certainly none along the desolate shores of the broad Atlantic where the Pilgrims landed. And the Colonists were not at first equipped to manufacture bricks. So the Pilgrim mothers did their baking either in Dutch ovens of tin, set facing the open fire on the stone hearth with a tin shield to ward off the flames, or in an iron kettle with squat legs and a depression in the cover for hot coals to give the top heat."Most recipes found in cookbooks of the Colonial period were written as a descriptive paragraph. The paragraph contained all the ingredients needed, correct amounts to use, and how to properly mix them. Unlike today's recipes, it didn't have an orderly list of ingredients followed by simple instructions for preparing the cake, bread, or whatever was to be baked. On the other hand, many recipes handed down through a family were merely a handwritten list of ingredients without instructions telling what to do with them. Homemakers in the Colonies, when given such a recipe by a friend or neighbor, was expected to already know how to correctly mix the ingredients. The Colonial homemaker depended on homemade yeast that varied greatly in strength from batch to batch. She made both liquid yeast and yeast cakes. Liquid yeast was commonly made and then bottled and stored until needed.Butter made in the Colonies was always heavily salted. The woman of the house had to carefully rinse the salt from her butter before using it for baking. Butter was sometimes in short supply in the Colonies. When the woman of the house wanted to bake and had no butter on hand, she simply substituted finely ground salt pork as her shortening. Yes, baking in the American Colonies was far from an easy task.
Download or read book Historical Christmas Cooking Baking in America written by Robert W. Pelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-10-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Christmas Cooking & Baking in America is chock full of delightfully delicious cooking ideas favored by many famous families of yesteryear. It contains the prized recipes for those Christmas dishes served and eaten by some of the early settlers in the American Colonies. Here will be found the favorite Yuletide dishes of some of the heroes of the Revolutionary War. You will be able to fix and then eat the same things served to those great men who so bravely signed the Declaration of Independence and those involved in writing and signing our great Constitution. You will be able to sample the identical food eaten at Christmas by those foreign heroes who volunteered to fight and die for our freedom. And lastly, you can enjoy sharing an identical Christmas meal with those who wore both the blue and the gray during the War Between the States, or as some unreconstructed Southerners still refer to it, the War of Northern Aggression.
Download or read book The Confederate Cookbook written by Lynda Moreau and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buttermilk biscuits, sweet potato casserole, pecan pie are some of the 340 Old South original recipes from Confederate soldier's families - past down the generations for you to enjoy.
Download or read book Civil War Cooking written by Lindsay Bartol and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern women during the Civil War served many roles including soldiers, nurses, civil rights activists, and abolitionists. With that being said, many women rallied together to help supply troops with food, clothing, money, and medical supplies. This book presents an informative narrative, and numerous excerpts from letters written by wives, mothers, and daughters whose men were serving in the military during the American Civil War. Portions of letters from men to the people back home are also included. The topic of these authentic quotations is food.
