House-Keeping in the Sunny South - by Ella Ruth Tennent (Paperback)
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- With its roots in the meetings of the Phoenix Agricultural Club of Marietta, Georgia, Ella Ruth Tennent's House-Keeping in the Sunny South offers nearly eight hundred food recipes, over seventy formulas for household compounds or medicines, and eight essays on managing various rooms of the house.
- About the Author: ELLA RUTH TENNENT (1855-1909) was a resident of Marietta, Georgia who worked for N.W. Ayer & Sons (an advertising agency), wrote for several periodicals, including Atlanta's Southern Cultivator and The Old Homestead, Athens's Women's Work, and eventually her own subscription-based publication: Tennent's Home Magazine.
- 338 Pages
- Cooking + Food + Wine, Regional & Ethnic
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With its roots in the meetings of the Phoenix Agricultural Club of Marietta, Georgia, Ella Ruth Tennent's House-Keeping in the Sunny South offers nearly eight hundred food recipes, over seventy formulas for household compounds or medicines, and eight essays on managing various rooms of the house. More than just a cookbook, this 1885 publication illuminates home life in Marietta, the Atlanta area, and greater Georgia in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
The day-to-day details of the writing in this volume tell a larger story. When the preface states that the recipes are inexpensive to "meet the pressure of the times," for example, it is hinting at the fact that the nation--and the South especially--was still recovering from an economic depression. Yet the cookbook also reveals a changing South. It is peppered with recipes from hotels and restaurants, claims contributors from twenty-two states, and calls for newly available commercial ingredients as well as exotic ones that demanded, at the time, global shipping networks. And the presence of chilled dishes between these covers also reveals how prevalent affordable year-round kitchen ice was becoming. But this remains a culinary guide from a time and place poised at the cusp of transition. It includes instructions for extracting the "jelly" from a calf's foot, for example, alongside gelatin recipes dependent on store-bought thickener. House-Keeping in the Sunny South was intended for Georgia's rapidly changing kitchens, but there is much for modern audiences to learn (and taste) from these pages.Review Quotes
After skimming the pages, the reader begins to make out individual voices in the recipes. Citizens of old Georgia begin to feel like real people. This home-focused primary source helps us ask new questions about the past and helps us to touch, smell, and taste that past in our modern kitchens.--Valerie J. Frey "author of Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions"
About the Author
ELLA RUTH TENNENT (1855-1909) was a resident of Marietta, Georgia who worked for N.W. Ayer & Sons (an advertising agency), wrote for several periodicals, including Atlanta's Southern Cultivator and The Old Homestead, Athens's Women's Work, and eventually her own subscription-based publication: Tennent's Home Magazine.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .76 Inches (D)
Weight: .74 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 338
Genre: Cooking + Food + Wine
Sub-Genre: Regional & Ethnic
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Theme: American, Southern States
Format: Paperback
Author: Ella Ruth Tennent
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2025
TCIN: 94449205
UPC: 9780820374062
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-5936
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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