Matt and I spent the afternoon in Back Bay Saturday - we did some window shopping, I failed at actual shopping, and we spent some time in the Boston Public Library. The Library is awesome, by the way. There's a beautiful courtyard in the middle that seems like the perfect place to sip a cup of coffee while you read your new favorite book. Our library trip was pretty successful - I checked out three new books that I've spent the rest of the afternoon flipping through and dreaming about what to make. Here's what I know for sure: We are totally making Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe (found in
The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine. Once again, we will learn that Ben Franklin invented everything.). Jefferson also has an asparagus recipe with raspberry vinaigrette that Matt has requested (with raspberries! He wants raspberries! I tried to conceal my excitement about this. I love raspberries!).
We also checked out
A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770. A quick flip through reveals a lot of similar recipes to Amelia Simmons, and something called "Water Cake" that requires an hours worth of beating. I might try to speed that process up. And last but not least, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat's award-winning
History of Food. This
was originally published in French, and as such, has more of a
Continental feeling than my other early cookbook research.
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| Pineapple Pavlova - yum! |
