Primitive Cookery Book

As a vegan who’s a total nerd for historical recipes, I’m having great fun thumbing through Primitive Cookery and deciding which recipe to try next! So far I’ve made the pease pudding (twice!) and oat milk. Super excited to buy ingredients for the mushroom ragoo next week.

Wonderful facsimile, cant wait to have it out for my next cooking demonstration.

Amazingly cool book.

The printer, The Colonial Printer & Bookbindery, has retained the original fonts and spelling. The spelling can give you a bit to work on, but, is not difficult to figure out. As with other cook books of this era there are no quantities for the most part, but, some old measurements are used here and there (Google them). It has recipes for some things I have never heard of one is skirrets a European vegetable. It is not like modern cookbooks that have exact measurements and instructions. Most of the recipes are straight forward and easy to understand, if you know how to cook. Some interpretation is required, makes it more fun right? Julia Child would love this book, almost all recipes call for butter. I am looking forward to making some of the recipes. I plan to make a ragoo of mushrooms tonight. I highly recommend is book

I collect cook books and this little tome, tho a modern printing, is as close to having the original printing.