Paperback
• Old-fashioned recipes from one New Englander's family, some from the early 1800's
• Includes New England classics like Boston Brown Bread, Baked Indian Pudding, New England Boiled Dinner, and Boston Baked Beans
• Simple instructions, inexpensive ingredients
• Includes long-forgotten recipes for Crust Coffee, Suet Pudding, Breakfast Sally Lunn, and more
• Appendix of Household Hints reveals how to remove disagreeble odors from the home, how to make old velvet look new, and the proper way to sweep a room
Nostalgia has always been a part of cooking, with cooks everywhere trying to recreate the smells and tastes of their home and youth. Lydia Gurney's 1912 "Things Mother Used to Make" has this sense of nostalgia at its heart. A native New Englander, the recipes have a bit of a New England leaning, but anyone craving honest-to-goodness American cooking will find a treasure trove of recipes in this volume.