Good Things To Eat, As Suggested By Rufus: A Collection Of Practical Recipes For Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. (1911) - Couverture souple

Estes, Rufus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1436860881 ISBN 13 : 9781436860888

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

""Good Things to Eat, As Suggested By Rufus"" is a cookbook published in 1911, written by Rufus Estes. The book contains a collection of practical recipes for preparing meats, game, fowl, fish, puddings, pastries, and other dishes. Rufus Estes was a former slave who became a chef and worked on trains for many years. He shares his knowledge and experience in this book, providing readers with detailed instructions and tips for creating delicious meals. The recipes range from simple dishes to more elaborate ones, and there are options for both meat-eaters and vegetarians. The book also includes a section on menu planning and entertaining guests. Overall, ""Good Things to Eat, As Suggested By Rufus"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in cooking and culinary history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The first cookbook to be written and published by a black chef, this volume provides a glimpse into a bygone world. Includes nearly 600 mouth-watering recipes: chicken gumbo, chestnut stuffing with truffles, cherry dumplings, southern style waffles, and scores of other dishes from haute cuisine to family-style meals. Of special value to anyone interested in the African-American experience. Includes the author's comments on what it was like to be a little boy during the Civil War. Includes 21 chapters and 591 recipes . . . for haute cuisine as well as family-style meals, some southern and Creole dishes. Roasted canvas-back duck, Virginia stew, blackberry vinegar, cakes, pies, cookies, omelettes.

First printed in 1911, Rufus Estes's Good Things to Eat is the work of a former slave and the first African American chef to write--let alone publish--a cookbook. Estes rose in life to become a chef to two presidents, European royalty, Pullman Private Car travelers, and late-19th-century celebrities such as "Bet-a-Million" Gates. His cookbook, reissued in facsimile with the addition of 56 period images, is a remarkable window; through it we can view the food of an era, the fine and everyday cooking (the two overlap) of its time. Readers interested in American history, culinary and otherwise, and in encountering one of its singular personalities will embrace the book.

Here Estes shares some of his 600 evocative dishes, the labor, he notes, of years: Chicken Timbales, Celery and Nut Salad, Tomato Soup (three kinds, one prepared with corned-beef stock), Rechauffé of Finnan Haddie, Boston Baked Beans, Lamb Curry, and Creamed Spaghetti (the pasta in a white sauce). There are stuffing recipes for duck, rabbit, fish, goose, pig, and turkey, two of which, clearly designed for Estes's carriage trade, contain truffles. A chapter on bread specialties includes recipes for Rye Breakfast Cakes, Graham Bread, Oriental Oatmeal Bread (inexplicably named, as its only "exotic" ingredient is molasses), Quick Muffins in Rings, and, simply, dearly,"A Pan of Rolls." This everyday breakfast item, to be started the night before, contains sugar, lard, and butter. The sweets chapters--there are three--reveal the vast range of early 20th-century "dainties" and include Baltimore Cake (two versions), Snippodoodles (thin, cinnamon-flavored cookies), Crullers, Cranberry Sherbet, and Maple Parfait. While written in the abbreviated style typical of the time, the recipes could be made by cooks with the kitchen experience Estes justifiably assumed of his audience. This is a lovely, instructive, and, considering the history of it author, moving book--a vivid look at a near but totally vanished American past.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus - A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, - Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Rufus Estes is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Rufus Estes then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1436860881
• ISBN 13: 9781436860888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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