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Ruth, I love the poetry of these old recipes. You might enjoy looking up my book, The Homeplace History, and Receipt Book: History, Folklore, and Recipes from Life on an Upper Southern Farm a Decade before the Civil War. This book was written with The Homeplace, a living history museum (proceeds help benefit educational programs). Many of those old receipts were such poems to me that I set the lines as such. You can see a good preview on Amazon.com.
I enjoy your recipes and reflections!
A Pickle from the Past
I want to share one last recipe from Virginia Cookery, one that reads almost like poetry. It’s from the personal family cookbook of Robert Bland Lee - who was the first Virginian representative to the US Congress (and also the uncle of Robert E. Lee). His wife Elizabeth Collins, a Quaker born ...
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