American Cookery: Or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry and Vegetables by Amelia Simmons

  • To roast beef (page 17)

    from The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of American Cookery, 1796 The First American Cookbook by Amelia Simmons

    • Categories: Main course; American
    • Ingredients: beef; salt
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  • ISBN 10 1409935841
  • ISBN 13 9781409935841
  • Published Feb 27 2009
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 56
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Dodo Press
  • Imprint Dodo Press

Publishers Text

American Cookery, written by Amelia Simmons, was the first known American cookbook that was written by an American for the American market. Until this time, the cookbooks printed and used in what became the United States were British cookbooks, so the importance of this book is obvious to American culinary history, and more generally, to the history of America. The full title of this book was: American Cookery, or 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 plum to plain cake: adapted to this country, and all grades of life. This book was quite popular and was printed, reprinted and pirated for 30 years after its first appearance. Only four copies of the first edition (Hartford, 1796) are known to exist.

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