Seasoned with Grace: My Generation of Shaker Cooking

by Bertha Lindsay and Eldress Bertha Lindsay

These simple recipes will be welcomed and used by everyone who appreciates true American cookery and the graceful Shaker tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881500992
• ISBN13: 9780881500998
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

POLITICALLY ACTIVE FRIENDS

Truly satisfying work is sometimes centered in old methods, values and attitudes. Recipes laced with a gentlewoman's confidence.

Shaker Living

When I looked at Eldress Bertha Lindsay's Seasoned with Grace: My Generation of Shaker Cooking, I had the impression it was primarily a cookbook, with additional context given through details of the Canterbury Shaker community. Because of that, I ended up being somewhat disappointed with the book. If, instead, you're looking for information about how the Canterbury Shaker community lived and ate during Eldress Lindsay's lifetime (1905-1990), I think you'll find this a very handy and fascinating book. With the Shaker emphasis on living separately from the 'World,' I had expected to find that the recipes would represent a simpler, vegetables-and-meat type of fare. Thus I was quite surprised to find quite a few recipes that were much closer to what I remember as stereotypical pot-luck fare when I was growing up: casseroles using concentrated cans of cream of mushroom soup; brownies; and 'salads' made of vegetables and fruit suspended in gelatin. It's really a matter of expectations. If you know in advance that this is a book meant to relate twentieth-century Shaker life, giving you the chance to sample a few recipes along the way, I think you'll find it's just what you're looking for. If you're expecting the kind of book you probably picture when you hear of a Shaker cookbook, however, you'll likely be disappointed.