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Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's GuideCooking with a Canadian Classic |
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A guidebook for women immigrants to nineteenth-century Canada in a deluxe edition that shows why it is still relevant today.
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee - this was an ordinary backwoods meal in Victorian-era Canada. Originally published in 1855, Catharine Parr Traill’s classic The Female Emigrant’s Guide, with its admirable recipes, candid advice, and astute observations about local food sourcing, offers an intimate glimpse into the daily domestic and seasonal routines of settler life.
This toolkit for historical cookery, redesigned and annotated in an edition for use in contemporary kitchens, provides readers with the resources to actively use and experiment with recipes from the original Guide. Containing modernized recipes, a measurement conversion chart, and an extensive glossary, this volume also includes discussions of cooking conventions, terms, techniques, and ingredients that contextualize the social attitudes, expectations, and challenges of Traill’s world and the emigrant experience.
In a distinctive and witty voice expressing her can-do attitude, Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide unlocks a wealth of information on historical foodways and culinary exploration.
This toolkit for historical cookery, redesigned and annotated in an edition for use in contemporary kitchens, provides readers with the resources to actively use and experiment with recipes from the original Guide. Containing modernized recipes, a measurement conversion chart, and an extensive glossary, this volume also includes discussions of cooking conventions, terms, techniques, and ingredients that contextualize the social attitudes, expectations, and challenges of Traill’s world and the emigrant experience.
In a distinctive and witty voice expressing her can-do attitude, Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide unlocks a wealth of information on historical foodways and culinary exploration.
Details
Part of the Carleton Library Series (number 241 in series)
608 Pages, 7 x 8
36 figures, 2 maps
ISBN 9780773549302
June 2017
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"This book contains so much lovely, evocative detail. It gives the reader a glimpse into the sensory world of the nineteenth-century kitchen while also highlighting the seemingly unending labour that went into feeding one's family. It is an impressive, unique, and essential work of Canadian culinary history." Ian Mosby, author of Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada's Home Front
“Much more than a simple reprinting of Traill’s guide, [Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic] it is a glimpse into nineteenth-century culinary history in Canada. As such, after the original guide, the authors added a 250-page “Guide to Traill’s World,” in which they explore what Traill typically fed her family, what three sample families of different financial means would normally eat, and the history of cooking measurements. They also modernized certain recipes (mostly breads, biscuits, and puddings), listed modern ingredients readers can use, and explained how to convert the other recipes. A fascinating read for anybody interested in Canadian domestic history and cooking.” Montreal Review of Books
“The Female Emigrant’s Guide is a blueprint for survival in the backwoods of 19th-century Upper Canada. But most of all, it’s a cookbook … [Cooke and Lucas’s] study of Traill’s world provides the context and resources necessary to unlock the Guide and other historical cookbooks.” The National Post
“Much more than a simple reprinting of Traill’s guide, [Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic] it is a glimpse into nineteenth-century culinary history in Canada. As such, after the original guide, the authors added a 250-page “Guide to Traill’s World,” in which they explore what Traill typically fed her family, what three sample families of different financial means would normally eat, and the history of cooking measurements. They also modernized certain recipes (mostly breads, biscuits, and puddings), listed modern ingredients readers can use, and explained how to convert the other recipes. A fascinating read for anybody interested in Canadian domestic history and cooking.” Montreal Review of Books
“The Female Emigrant’s Guide is a blueprint for survival in the backwoods of 19th-century Upper Canada. But most of all, it’s a cookbook … [Cooke and Lucas’s] study of Traill’s world provides the context and resources necessary to unlock the Guide and other historical cookbooks.” The National Post
Nathalie Cooke is associate dean of the McGill Library, professor of English at McGill University, and the editor of What’s to Eat?: Entrées in Canadian Food History.
Fiona Lucas is co-founder of the Culinary Historians of Canada. She lives in Toronto.
Fiona Lucas is co-founder of the Culinary Historians of Canada. She lives in Toronto.
Contents
Figures · vii
Acknowledgments · xi
Introduction · xiii
A Short Biography of Catharine Parr Traill · xxxi
A Publication History of The Female Emigrant’s
Guide · xxxix
Editors’ Note · xlv
The Female Emigrant’s Guide, and Hints
on Canadian Housekeeping · 1
Guide to Traill’s World · 247
Introduction · 249
Feeding Her Family · 251
Farmhouse Foodways: Sample Seasonal Menus
at Home · 279
Farmhouse Foodways: Sample Menus for
Special Occasions · 297
Measurements for Cooking · 303
Measurements Chart · 317
Interpreting Nineteenth-Century Recipes · 320
Recipes in the Guide · 327
Additional Recipes · 354
Simple Fireplace Cooking at Home · 362
Glossary of Food and Cooking Terms · 371
Glossary of Traill’s Sources and Influences · 493
Bibliography · 517
Index · 531
Figures · vii
Acknowledgments · xi
Introduction · xiii
A Short Biography of Catharine Parr Traill · xxxi
A Publication History of The Female Emigrant’s
Guide · xxxix
Editors’ Note · xlv
The Female Emigrant’s Guide, and Hints
on Canadian Housekeeping · 1
Guide to Traill’s World · 247
Introduction · 249
Feeding Her Family · 251
Farmhouse Foodways: Sample Seasonal Menus
at Home · 279
Farmhouse Foodways: Sample Menus for
Special Occasions · 297
Measurements for Cooking · 303
Measurements Chart · 317
Interpreting Nineteenth-Century Recipes · 320
Recipes in the Guide · 327
Additional Recipes · 354
Simple Fireplace Cooking at Home · 362
Glossary of Food and Cooking Terms · 371
Glossary of Traill’s Sources and Influences · 493
Bibliography · 517
Index · 531
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$115.00 CAD
Cloth
Quill & Quire review by Sue Carter
The Montreal Review of Books review by Mélanie Grondin
CBC News Montreal review by Kateryna Gordiychuk
National Post review by Laura Brehaut
Author's Interview with Rebecca Ugolini, All in a Weekend CBC (Part 1)
Author's Interview with Rebecca Ugolini, All in a Weekend CBC (Part 2)
Review in Canadian Literature
The Montreal Review of Books review by Mélanie Grondin
CBC News Montreal review by Kateryna Gordiychuk
National Post review by Laura Brehaut
Author's Interview with Rebecca Ugolini, All in a Weekend CBC (Part 1)
Author's Interview with Rebecca Ugolini, All in a Weekend CBC (Part 2)
Review in Canadian Literature
Finalist
English Language Culinary Narrative Award
Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada
2018
English Language Culinary Narrative Award
Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada
2018
