By Merril D. Smith Ph.D.
This booklet examines the heritage and perform of cooking in what's now the U.S. from nearly the fifteenth century to the current day, overlaying every thing from the hot-stone cooking innovations of the Nootka humans of the Pacific Northwest to the impression of Crisco—a shortening product meant instead for lard—upon American cooking within the twentieth century. studying how American cooking has developed in the course of the centuries offers necessary insights into existence long ago and gives tricks to our future.
The writer describes cooking tools used all through American heritage, spotlighting why specific equipment have been used and the way they have been used to supply specific dishes. The historic presentation of knowledge should be fairly invaluable to school scholars learning U.S. heritage and studying approximately how wartime and new know-how impacts lifestyles throughout society. common readers will take pleasure in studying concerning the subject matters pointed out above, in addition to the in-depth discussions of such dishes as fried poultry, donuts, and Thanksgiving turkey. a number of pattern recipes also are included.
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Now cooks have electric mixers, blenders, food processors, and of course electric ovens and microwaves. Ovens and stoves have probably changed the most over the centuries, although many ordinary kitchen devices, such as egg beaters, did not exist in the 17th century. Some kitchen equipment, tools, and techniques are discussed in the following chapters, but what follows is a brief discussion of changes in kitchen technology. Undated book illustration of an 18th or early-19th-century farmer's kitchen.
Ca. 1685 Rice is brought to South Carolina. 1747 The Art of Cookery by Englishwoman Hannah Glasse is published. It is reprinted in Virginia, with a new American section in 1805. 1759–63 Seven Years’ War fought in Europe and North America (also called the French and Indian War in the United States), killing, wounding, and displacing thousands. 1764 English Parliament passes Revenue (Sugar Act), placing taxes on sugar and other goods. 1773 English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which lowered the price of tea, but gave the East India Company control over who could sell tea in the colonies.
Gas companies, however, began to produce and market their own gas stoves, and gas delivery systems also improved. 35 Electric stoves, although they existed earlier, did not begin to be popular until the 1920s, when manufacturers began to improve them. Most importantly, they introduced an electromechanical thermostat, which kept oven temperatures constant. They also placed ovens under the stove burners, permitting women to continue stovetop preparations at the same level as kitchen counters. These new electric stoves came in a variety of colors, as well.