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Mrs Dalgairns's kitchen : rediscovering The practice of cookery /

Title
Mrs Dalgairns's kitchen : rediscovering The practice of cookery / edited by Mary F. Williamson ; with modernized recipes by Elizabeth Baird.
Author
Dalgairns, Mrs.,
Publication
  • Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
Williamson, Mary F.,
Description
xviii, 520 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"A multicultural cookbook from the early nineteenth century, supplemented with historical context and modernized recipes, holds treasures to excite today's readers and cooks. When The Practice of Cookery first appeared in Edinburgh and London editions in 1829, reviewers hailed it as one of the best cookbooks available. The book was unique not only in being wholly original, but also for its broad culinary influences, incorporating recipes from British North America, the United States, England, Scotland, France, and India. Catherine Emily Callbeck Dalgairns was born in 1788. Though her contemporaries understood her to be a Scottish author, she lived her first twenty-two years in Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown was home for much longer than the twelve years she spent in London or her mere six years' residency in Dundee, Scotland, by the time of the cookbook's first appearance. In Mrs Dalgairns's Kitchen, Mary Williamson reclaims Dalgairns and her book's Canadian roots. During her youth, the popular cookbook author would have had experience of Acadian, Mi'kmaq, and Scottish Highlands foods and ways of cooking. Her mother had come from Boston, inspiring the cookbook's several American recipes; Dalgairns's brothers-in-law lived in India, reflected in the chapter devoted to curry recipes. Williamson consults the publisher's surviving archives to offer insights into the world of early nineteenth-century publishing, while Elizabeth Baird updates Dalgairns's recipes for the modern kitchen. Both an enticing history of the seminal cookbook and a practical guide for readers and cooks today, Mrs Dalgairns's Kitchen offers an intimate look at the tastes and smells of an early nineteenth-century kitchen."--
Series Statement
Carleton Library series ; 254
Uniform Title
  • Carleton library series ; 254.
  • Practice of cookery adapted to the business of every-day life
Alternative Title
Practice of cookery adapted to the business of every-day life
Subjects
Genre/Form
Cookbooks.
Note
  • This edition of the Practice of Cookery is an adaptation of the 1830 third edition published by Robert Cadell in Edinburgh and London.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-498) and indexes.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN
  • 0228005337
  • 9780228005339
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library