"Hearthside Cooking"

For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights.  This cookbook contains receipes for more than 250 historic dishes, including breads, soups, entrees, cakes, custards, sauces and more.  For each dish, two sets of instructions are provided so dishes can be prepared over the open fire or by using modern kitchen appliances.  More than a cookbook, it also includes information about the men and women who wrote the original recipes. 

Hardbound.  339 pages.