- A Centennial Meal for the Sestercentennial
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How did Americans in 1876 celebrate the centennial culinarily? Some of their recipes are surprisingly modern, and some are unique flavors worthy of resurrecting. - Irish mashed potato pie for Π Day and Saint Patrick’s Day
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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! - A Monticello Meal for Independence Day
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Marie Kimball’s Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book provides several pot-luck friendly dishes for your Fourth of July celebration this Semiquincentennial. - Mrs. Winslow’s Domestic Receipt Book for 1876
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If this is what people were eating in 1876, they were eating very well. From coconut pie to molasses gingerbread to tomato jam, these are great recipes—albeit requiring some serious interpretation. - The New Centennial Cook Book
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Over 100 Valuable Receipts for Cakes, Pies, Puddings, etc.… borrowed verbatim from other cookbooks. - Quiet ovens and Australian rice shortbread
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What is a quiet oven? How do we translate old recipes? Executive summary: 325°; very carefully. Plus, two Australian recipes for rice shortbread as a test of my theory.
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- A selection of Eulogies in Honor of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (ebook)
- “A selection of eulogies, pronounced in the several states, in honor of those illustrious patriots and statesmen, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.” 1826.
