A Sweet Taste of
History: More than 100 Elegant Dessert Recipes from America's
Earliest Days by Chef Walter Staib published in 2013 236 pages
Chef Staib is the
proprietor of the Philadelphia City Tavern, a faithful reproduction
of the original tavern established in 1773.
I love desserts. I mean
I REALLY love desserts. As I read through this book I could see the
founding fathers sitting around a table and feasting on these
wonderful foods. It makes one realize that our ancestors really knew
how to cook and how to eat.
All most all of these
recipes can be cooked and enjoyed at home. I personally prefer my
wife's gingerbread, but the one in this book looks good also.
One doesn't think of
Ice Cream and Sorbet as being colonial. But it was. Though I would
love to try Thomas Jefferson's Vanilla Bean Ice Cream recipe, I am
afraid it may be along time before I have the courage to try Dolly
Madison's Oyster Ice Cream (one cup of Chesapeake
oysters in one and a half quarts of ice cream)! Maybe Oyster Ice
Cream is very good, maybe I am being silly. Maybe not...
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