The Best of Shaker Cooking

by Amy Bess Miller and Persis Wellington [ Editors ] Miller, Amy Bess Williams; Fuller

Book Overview

Over 900 easy-to-prepare favorites from nineteenth-century Shaker kitchens with a new introduction by Evan Jones marking the silver anniversary of the Hancock Shaker Village Restoration. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025849808
• ISBN13: 9780025849808
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Eat Well the Old Fashioned Wayl

There are half a dozen recipes in this book that we make and give away as gifts for holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas). They are so not "heart healthy" you can't believe. But for holiday stuff, once a year stuff, they are GOOOOOD. It's a whole different world of recipes - eggs, the more the better. Butter, the more the better. But when these were created, the people that were eating these things were burning 8000 calories a day in the fields. If you're into organic foods, these are like organic recipes. They were all created with the eggs from free-range chickens, with vegetables fertilized only with natural fertilizers (see the chickens). The Pumpkin Loaf is something that we give as gifts, as is the Cranberry Loaf. And then there's the ... well, if you like hamburgers with onions, imagine a stuffed onion which is basically an inside-out cheeseburger.