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Twains feast has the author Andrew Beahrs recreate what Twain craved for after a long trip in europe.
Porterhouse Steak.
Juliet Carson
Horseshoe toast
Aunt Babette
Mary Newton Foote Henderson
Does anyone know why caramel cakes are making appearance at all grocery stores at the same time?
Had apple crumb muffins from costco. Even before eating it, I knew it was soft. I was holding it to cut the jumbo and I was amking indentations in it, it was queasy like holding a living thing. I have had 3/4 of the jumbo nut muffin before going for Havasupai hike.
Louis Jolliet a French explorer in IL, was fed Sagamite.
Teligbo from Benin.
Martha McCulloch Williams
Baked milk, Margarettes , Potatoes Lyonnaise, a samp recipe, Macaroni and Apricots from Rufus Estes. Old cookbooks do not have measurements.
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry
Edna Lewis
The recipes in the old cookbooks call for loaf sugar.
Scolloped tomatoes from Eliza Leslie. 'Throw it away' is the last thing you will hear in a recipe, but Leslie is just making sure that we dont have poisonous mushroom.
Mario Batali.
While Lafcadio Hearn's book in question is La cuisine Creole, he seems to be aprolific writer with many on Japan, Buddhism, West Indies.
Susannah Carter
Estelle Woods Wilcox's Buckeye cookery and practical housekeeping seems like a fun book with original recipes. Some recipes end in a hyphen with the recipe owners name and place.
German pancake soup in Jennie June's American Cookery Book
Salt roast
Bohemian San Francisco
The White House cookbook author Fanny Lemira Gillette's 50th anniversary meal menu is available in another of her cookbook
Tansy pudding and rice bread recipe in The Virginia housewife.
To remove a mote in the eye with horsehair in The New England Economical Housekeeper.
Election cake and Caramel cake recipes in Favorite Dishes

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