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"What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Southern Cooking" is a cookbook published in 1881 by former slave Abby Fisher who moved from Alabama to San Francisco. A wonderful collection of 160 authentic and tasty recipes of the Old South. It is one of the first cookbooks written by an African-American and remains one of the best.
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"Nothing too unheard of, fun to read. I may try a few of the recipes. Beat(en) Biscuit is also in Fanny Farmer 1896 edition. I made that once just for fun. They were kinda weird, good in soup. Like really hard crackers. Maybe I screwed it up though."
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What Mrs Fisher Knows About Southern Cooking Abby Fisher 9781388176723 Books Reviews :
What Mrs Fisher Knows About Southern Cooking Abby Fisher 9781388176723 Books Reviews
- Great book, and the recipes work well if you're willing to think carefully about what some of the older terms mean, and learn how to measure in the pre-Fanny Farmer way. Don't, however, get it if you want modern recipes — you'll be disappointed. It's definitely old-fashioned food with directions for cooking it the old-fashioned way, down to instructions on how to set the damper of your wood-burning stove. The Gold Cake is especially good, and the breakfast cream cake was a pleasure to eat.
- This book is a fascinating window into the "Big House" kitchens of the south. Written (dictated, actually, as Mrs. Fisher could not write) in 1881 by a former slave who was proud of her skills, it includes directions on how to pickle, preserve, and prepare amazingly elegant food in the kitchens *before* the turn of the century - using wood stoves, fireplaces, and iceboxes but nothing we'd recognize as refrigeration. Really interesting - a book you can learn a thing or two from!
- Love this book - great history, great voice, and inspiration for our cooking at home. So interesting to read about how the misinterpretations of the woman who wrote it up for her (not understanding Mrs Fisher's Southern accent) resulted in things miswritten, such as Circuit Hash instead of Succotash. Can't wait to try the recipes, especially the preserves!
- I was a bit disappointed in this cookbook. First of all, I expected something larger than what looks like a Scholastic children's book. Next, I expected more about the actual author but there was hardly anything. Oh well, I guess for $9 you get what you pay for, huh? There are better vintage African American cookbooks out there. I suppose it was ok for the1800s.
- very good and simple recipes. it took me a bit to realize why the cooking temps were not annotated then it hit me, this was written in the late 1800s and they didn't cook with anything but fire. i really like it and look forward to trying the recipes.
- Nothing too unheard of, fun to read. I may try a few of the recipes. Beat(en) Biscuit is also in Fanny Farmer 1896 edition. I made that once just for fun. They were kinda weird, good in soup. Like really hard crackers. Maybe I screwed it up though.
- besides the historical value of the book as an African-American resource, I've tried a couple recipes and found that they jive well with other sources I checked for usability. Of course, there is no way to judge temperature, due to the lack of modern ovens in that day and age. This is a fun book I'll be using for different recipes!
- Recipes are not easy to follow. Hard to gather items without a list before instructions. It was difficult for mom to use.
