Food for the Great Anniversary Festival
The image links to the Great Anniversary Festival recipe cards (PDF File, 4.5 MB), but this particular recipe is available in A Sestercentennial Cookery.
Sarah Hoyt invited me to post something about Bi/Vi/Centennial food on According To Hoyt, and it’s now up. Please read Food for the Great Anniversary Festival there! It features a special collection of Centennial-friendly recipes just for Hoyt’s Huns, and includes recipes not in A Sestercentennial Cookery. There are also different takes on the history of some of these books and foods than I put into the break-out posts.
If you came here for the Great Anniversary Festival recipe PDF (PDF File, 4.5 MB), you can download it by way of this link (PDF File, 4.5 MB)!
I’ve also linked the other eighteenth and nineteenth century cookbooks below.
The day is passed.—The 4th of July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the GREAT ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL!
The Baron de Brise’s rice and beans served in a rice ring.
Martha Jefferson Randolph’s Fish Potato Pie.
Apple Custard Pie (1876, Horsford).
German Lemon Cookies (1876).
Black Pepper Slaw (1876, Ohio).
You may also be interested in my Sestercentennial Year posts:
A Sestercentennial Year
- Our lot is cast in this happy land…
- The World Turned Upside Down
- Cherry Valley: A Massacre of the Revolution
- The Battle of the Kegs
- Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
- The New Colossus Breathes Free
- Irish mashed potato pie for Π Day and Saint Patrick’s Day
- Mock the Wind and Sing of Marion’s Men
- Flowers o’er the Tory grave: Disney’s Francis Marion
- A Monticello Meal for Independence Day
- No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive
- The Riflemen of Bennington
In response to A Bicentennial Meal for the Sestercentennial: Four community cookbooks celebrating the bicentennial. As we approach our sestercentennial in 2026, what makes a meal from 1976?
America’s Sestercentennial
- Food for the Great Anniversary Special: Jerry Stratton at According To Hoyt
- “The day is passed.—The 4th of July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the GREAT ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL!”
- Great Anniversary Festival Recipes (PDF File, 4.5 MB)
- Recipes featured in Food for the Great Anniversary Festival, in 6x4 format for printing on cardstock and saving in a card file.
- Make a Joyful Noise: Sarah Hoyt at According To Hoyt
- “A lot of people have said we’re approaching the 250th anniversary in a very muted way. And they’re not wrong. Though to an extent it’s not fair to compare it to the centennial, because it’s a half-centennial, it’s still a noteworthy occasion for the Republic and we definitely should celebrate it. And I won’t lie…”
- Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
- The Sestercentennial Cookery is a celebration of American home cooking for the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.
food history
- American Cookery: Amelia Simmons at Internet Archive
- “…the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake. Adapted to this country, and all grades of life.”
- American Cookery Cookbook: Amelia Simmons at Townsends (paperback)
- “While other English cookbooks had been reprinted in America prior to this work… this 48-page duodecimo, American Cookery, (1796) by Amelia Simmons is believed to be the first cookbook written by an American–giving it a unique perspective.”
- The Centennial Buckeye Cook Book at Internet Archive (ebook)
- “In the effort to avoid the mistakes of others, greater errors may have been committed, but the work is submitted just as it is to the generous judgment of those who consult it, with the hope that it may lessen their perplexities, and stimulate that just pride without which work is drudgery and great excellence impossible.” Compiled by the Women of the First Congregational Church, Marysville, Ohio.
- The Centennial Cook Book and General Guide: Mrs. Ella E. Meyers at Internet Archive (ebook)
- “Embracing modern cookery, in all its arts, family medicines and household remedies, farming hints and complete farriery, events of the last century… a little souvenir of our nation's Centennial Birthday; something that may be retained by future posterity as a memento of the grand celebration in this Centennial Year, 1876.”
- The National Cookery Book of the International Exhibition of 1876 at Library of Congress (ebook)
- “This volume is dedicated to the women of America by the Women’s Committees of the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876… Good cooking… enables us to make the best use of the endless variety provided by Providence for our gratification and sustenance. It promotes health, contentment, and kindly feeling.”
- Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book: Marie Kimball at Internet Archive
- This is a 2007 reprint of the 1938 edition, which doesn’t have the completely unnecessary Helen D. Bullock essay that prefaces the 1976 edition.
More America’s Sestercentennial
- A Monticello Meal for Independence Day
- Marie Kimball’s Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book provides several pot-luck friendly dishes for your Fourth of July celebration this Semiquincentennial.
- Irish mashed potato pie for Π Day and Saint Patrick’s Day
- In this sestercentennial year, here’s a great triple-celebration pie. It’s from about 1876 and it can fill in for both Pi Day and St. Patrick’s Day!
- Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
- The Sestercentennial Cookery is a celebration of American home cooking for the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.
- The World Turned Upside Down
- The legend of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown says that the band played “The World Turned Upside Down”. It probably didn’t. But we’re going to print the legend anyway.
- A Vicennial Meal for the Sestercentennial
- In 1776 we were too busy to write commemorative cookbooks. But in 1796 “Amelia Simmons, American Orphan” published the first known American cookbook. It’s a celebration of American foods, American values, and American economies.
- Two more pages with the topic America’s Sestercentennial, and other related pages
More recipes
- Refrigerator Revolution Reprinted: 1928 Frigidaire
- If you’d like to have a printed copy of the 1928 Frigidaire Recipes, here’s how you can get one. Also, a lot of new recipes tried.
- Mom’s High School Cooking Notebook, 1960
- My mother kept her high school recipe notebook for as long as I can remember. It was often on the kitchen counter when the counter was dusted with flour.
- Four New Ices and an Ice Cream Cookery
- Philadelphia Ice Cream, Walnut Nougat, Lemon Cream Sherbet, and Cranberry Ice. Four more new no-churn ice creams and desserts for Summer 2025. And, a book collecting all my favorite no-churn ice creams if you’re interested!
- A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book
- A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book is a collection of recipes that I enjoy making while traveling, and in other people’s kitchens.
- Tempt Them with Tastier Foods: Second Printing
- The second printing of Tempt Them with Tastier Foods contains several newly-discovered Eddie Doucette recipes, as well as an interview with the chef’s son, Eddie Doucette III.
- 10 more pages with the topic recipes, and other related pages