American Cookery: Thanksgiving Menus & Classic Recipes
Classic Menus, Roast Poultry, Pies, Puddings, and Domestic Culinary TraditionsBy Anonymous
Length1h 37m
About this audiobook
*American Cookery: Thanksgiving Menus & Classic Recipes* presents the nation's holiday table as both a practical arrangement of dishes and a cultural record of American domestic life. Its prose is direct, instructional, and hospitable, organizing recipes and menus around Thanksgiving's characteristic movement from savory abundance to seasonal dessert. Alongside culinary usefulness, the volume belongs to the broader tradition of American household manuals, in which cooking instructions preserve regional habits, inherited techniques, and ideals of family fellowship. The emphasis on classic preparations gives the book a deliberately retrospective character, inviting readers to consider how familiar foods acquire symbolic meaning through repetition and celebration. The author is identified only as Anonymous, a designation that appropriately shifts attention from individual personality to communal authorship. The book appears to arise from the practical knowledge of home cooks and from a desire to conserve recipes associated with a widely shared national observance. Its arrangement suggests an interest in making tradition accessible: menus provide structure, while individual recipes translate custom into reproducible practice. In this sense, anonymity reinforces the volume's relationship to an accumulated culinary inheritance rather than to a single, self-conscious literary career. Readers interested in food history, American cultural memory, or the rituals of domestic hospitality will find this collection especially rewarding. It is equally valuable to cooks seeking dependable inspiration for a Thanksgiving meal, since its classic orientation encourages adaptation without abandoning recognizable forms. More than a recipe book, it offers a concise portrait of how Americans have imagined celebration, generosity, and belonging through food.
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GenreOther
Length1 hr 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
2Seasonable-and-Tested Recipes By Janet M. Hill and Mary D. Chambers
3Potage Parmentier
4Potato-and-Peanut Sausages
5Roast Turkey
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6Turkey Stuffing
7Garnish the Roast Turkey with Stuffed Onions
8Oyster-and-Onion Purée
9Salmon à la Creole
10Brother Jonathan
11Plymouth Succotash
12New England Salad
13Guinea Chickens
14Rib Roast of Beef with Yorkshire Pudding
15Yorkshire Pudding
16Apple Mint Jelly for Roast Lamb
17Marinaded Cutlets
18Thanksgiving Corn Cake
19Thanksgiving Pudding
20Coffee Fruit Punch
21Sweet Cider Frappé
22Fig-and-Cranberry Pie
23Dry Deviled Parsnips
24King's Pudding With Apple-Jelly Sauce
25Apple-Jelly Sauce
26Cranberry Tart
27Cooked Cranberry Filling
28Pumpkin Fanchonettes
29Pilgrim Cookies
30Pyramid Birthday Cake
31Stirred Brown Bread
32Swedish Pancakes With Aigre-Doux Sauce
33Aigre-Doux Sauce
34Sautéed Cucumbers and Tomatoes
35Skirt Steak, with Raisin Sauce
36Raisin Sauce for Skirt Steak
37Boudin Blanc
38Seasonable Menus for Week in November
39Menus for Thanksgiving Dinners
40Concerning Breakfasts By Alice E. Whitaker
41Some Recipes for Preparing Poultry By Kurt Heppe
42Stuffed Poularde
43Sautéed Chicken
44Poulet en Casserole Bourgeoise
45Chicken Pie
46Suprême de Volaille Jeanette
47Polly's Thanksgiving Party By Ella Shannon Bowles
48Vegetable Tarts and Pies
49Potato Tarts à la Gratin
50Baked Onion Dumplings
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