Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface The Recipes Conrad Aiken delete5 * Scrapple Bronson and Louisa May Alcott delete5 * Berry Pudding Without Eggs * Biscuit Without Milk * Cake Without Eggs * Ginger Snaps * Graham Cake * Tomato Catsup Horatio Alger, Jr. delete6 * Egg Plant Pilau * Graham MufFins David Amram delete7 * Omelette Rudolfo Anaya delete7 * Sardinas de Lata (Sardines from the Can) Sherwood Anderson delete9 * Baked Anonymous delete9 * Boston Brown Bread * Breakfast Dish * Cheese Relish * Chowder, an Old Recipe * Colonial Punch * Corn Bread * Corn Pone * Eve''s Pudding * Oatmeal Pudding * Old Virginia Mince Pie * Oyster Cocktail * Plum Pudding * Plum Pudding * Stewed Duck and Peas Susan B. Anthony delete16 * Apple Tapioca Pudding Catharine Beecher delete17 * Cheapest Beef * Coffee * Fish Skin for Coffee * French Pot au Feu * Fricassee Chickens * Mush or Hasty Pudding * Shoulder of Lamb * Spanish Olla-­Podrida * Succotash * Tomato Catsup Henry Ward Beecher delete20 deleteBarbeque * Biscuits * Reed-­Birds * Succotash, or Corn and Beans * Tomatoes * Turtle Bean Soup Elizabeth Bishop delete22 * Brownies Lillie Devereux Blake delete23 * Last Century Blackberry Pudding * Tropic Delicacy Edwin Booth--Breakfast at Delmonico''s delete23 * Terrine de fois gras (Terrine entière de ­foies-­gras) Kay Boyle delete24 * Ratatouille Rowayton Oliver Bell Bunce delete25 * Dandelion Wine * Orange Loaf Cake * Robert E. Lee Cake John Burroughs delete26 * A Frickasie (Colonial Recipe) John Cage delete27 * Homemade Bread Helen Campbell delete28 * Candied or Crystallized Fruit or Nuts * Deviled Ham * Gingersnaps * Irish Stew * Tomato Catsup Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary delete30 * Boiled Apple Dumplings * Compote of Apples * Minced Chicken * Plum Pudding * Snow Balls Willa Cather delete31 * Christmas Plum Pudding * Cream Raymond Chandler delete33 * Gimlet Denise Chávez delete33 * DelFina Spanish--Really Mexican--Rice Lydia Maria Child delete33 * Beef * Currant Wine * Mince Meat * Plum Pudding * Pumpkin and Squash Robert P. Tristram CofFin delete35 * Lobster Stew John Esten Cooke delete36 * Perfection Salad Rose Terry Cooke delete36 * Frizzled Dried Beef * Scalloped Fish Susan Coolidge delete37 * Browned Oysters * Easy Chicken Salad * Molasses Pie * Rhode Island ­Johnny-Cake * Spiced Shad * Squash Pies William A. Croffut delete39 * Clam Soup * Peas Stewed in Cream * Stuffed Cabbage * Sweet Pickle Bernard DeVoto delete40 * Lobster * Martinis à la DeVoto Charles Dickens--Dinner at Delmonico''s delete41 * Aspic of ­Foies-­Gras (Aspic de ­foie-­gras) * Bécassines (English Snipe, Broiled) * Consommé à la Sévigné * Salmon à la Victoria (Saumon à la Victoria) * Tenderloin of Beef à la Lucullus (Filet de boeuf à la Lucullus) Emily Dickinson delete50 * Black Cake * Chocolate Dessert * Cocoanut Cake * Gingerbread Dorothy Dix delete52 * Barbequed Chicken Abigail Scott Duniway delete52 * Chicken and Gravy as Mother Did It * Pure Salt Rising Bread * Transparent Jelly (No. 1) * Transparent Jelly (No. 2) Elizabeth Fries Ellet delete53 * Jugged Hare * Scotch Haggis * Seven-­Years'' Catsup Harlan Ellison delete54 * Café Ellison Diabolique Nora Ephron delete55 * Mashed Potatoes William Faulkner delete56 * Curing Hams Shoulders Bacon * Hot Toddy Erna Fergusson delete57 * Buñuelos or Sopaipillas (Fried Puffs) * Chile con Carne * Chiles Rellenos * Corn Meal Tortillas * Enchiladas with Flour Tortillas * Frijoles (Beans) * Green Corn with Green Chile * Posole (Hog and Hominy) * Quesadillas * Pastels (Pastry) * Pastelitos * Tortillas, Corn Meal Annie Adams Fields delete62 * French Toast * Walnut Cake Zelda Fitzgerald delete62 * Breakfast Benjamin Franklin delete62 * Apple Pudding (Pour faire un pudding de pommes) * Beer with Essence of Spruce (Maniere de faire de la Biere avec de l''Essence de Spruce) * Broiled Steaks (Tranches de boeuf grillées) * A Cheap and Good Soup * Mince Pie (Recette d''un p'té haché) * Orange Shrub * Oyster Sauce for Boiled Turkey (Sauce d''huitres pour un dindon bouilli) * Puff Paste (P'te feuilletée) * Rice Pudding Baked (Pour faire un pudding de riz cuit au pour) * Roast Pig (Pour rôtir un cochon de lait) * Sauce for Boiled Ducks or Rabbits (Sauce pour des canards ou des lapins bouillis) Jessie Benton Frémont delete65 * Ham Bones Horace Howard Furness delete66 * Cream Cheese Erle Stanley Gardner delete66 * Case of the Caretaker''s Cat Cocktail Charlotte Perkins Gilman delete67 * Synthetic Quince Allen Ginsberg delete67 * Cold Summer Borscht Grace Greenwood delete68 * Prune Pudding Sarah Josepha Hale delete68 * Chicken Pie * Puff Paste * Pumpkin Pie * Roast Beef * Roasted Goose * Roasted Pork * Roasted Turkey * Stuffed Loin of Mutton Gail Hamilton delete71 * Beaten Biscuit * Blackberry Jam Cake * Brown Bread Cakes * Soft Gingerbread Marion Harland delete72 * Arrowroot ­Blanc-­Mange * Beef Tea * Boiled Ham * Broiled Chicken * Brunswick Stew * Chicken Jelly * Chicken Pie * Country Pork Sausages * Fried Chicken * Galantine * Lobster Chowder * Mince Pies * Mother''s Crullers * Omelette aux Fines Herbes * Peach Marmalade * Potted Herrings * Pumpkin Pie * Ragout of Liver * Roast Chine * Roast Duck * Roast Pig * Roast Spare Rib * Roast Turkey * Strawberry Shortcake * Sweet Potato Pudding * Tomato Aspic and Shrimp Salad * White (Asparagus) Soup Harvard Club of New York--Dinner at Delmonico''s delete83 * Charlotte Russe * Consummé Imperial (Consommé à l''Imperiale) * Potatoes Souféd (Pommes de terre soufés) * Sweetbreads, Parisian Style (Ris de veau à la Parisienne) * Italian Salad (Salade à l''Italienne) Nathaniel Hawthorne delete90 * Corned Beef Lafcadio Hearn delete91 * Boston Brown Bread * Bouille-­Abaisse * Calves'' Feet Jelly * Country Fried Chicken * CrayFish Bisque * Gelatine Snow Pudding * Gumbo of Okra or Filee * Graham MufFins for Dyspeptics * Jambalaya of Fowls and Rice * Mint Juleps * Pudding * Rich Wedding Cake or Black Cake * Tomato Catsup * Tomato Soup with Vegetables Lillian Hellman delete95 * Pot Roast Ernest Hemingway delete95 * Bloody Mary * Chop Suey * Daiquiri * Fried Trout * Picadillo John Hersey delete98 * Sliced Steak Sandwich Isabella Beecher Hooker delete98 * Soup Regency * Sponge Cake * Veal Croquettes Robinson Jeffers delete99 * For a Poet''s Palate Thomas Jefferson delete99 * Apple Toddy * Ice Cream * Persimmon Beer Ronald Johnson delete101 * Green Chile Sauce * Huevos Rancheros * Mexican Summer Soup Helen Keller delete102 * Golden Gate Salad Jack Kerouac delete102 * Green Pea Soup * P'te de Porc Gras Caroline Kirkland delete103 * Bread Ted Kooser delete104 * How to Make Rhubarb Wine Ring Lardner delete105 * Dry Martini Harper Lee delete105 * Crackling Bread Ursula K.

Le Guin delete105 * Crab Nebula * Líriv Metadí or Valley Succotash * Primitive Chocolate Mousse Elmore Leonard delete107 * Elmore''s Southron Breakfast Treats Aldo Leopold delete107 * Deer Steaks Eliza Leslie delete108 * Beefsteak (Broiled) * Beefsteak (Fried) * CatFish Soup * Fine Puff Paste * French Mustard * Green Corn Pudding * Lemon Pudding * Lobster * Maccaroni * Mock Turtle or Calf''s Head Soup * Mushroom Catsup * Pepper Pot * Pickled Oysters * Pickled Tom.