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New Cookbook Launched Bridget Wranich, co-founder of the Culinary Historians of Canada, and Elizabeth Baird, CHC member, have collaborated on a lovely little book, Setting a Fine Table: Historical Desserts and Drinks from the Officers’ Kitchens at Fort York. It is a mouth-watering selection of cakes, cookies, pastries, puddings, and drinks from Fort York National Historic Site. Research and testing was done by the fort’s Volunteer Historic Cooks. The recipes, drawn from British, American, and Canadian cookbooks of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, are featured in the Historic Foodways Programme which recreates the cooking practices and lifestyles of British officers in a fort in Upper Canada in the early 19th century. The thirty favourites include the original, historic recipe as well as its modern equivalent. Each is introduced by an explanation of why it was chosen, how it would have been used in the fort in the past, and how it is used there today. With beautiful photographs and a bibliography of the original sources this book will appeal to everyone interested in historic cooking and Canada’s past.
New Cookbook Launched Bridget Wranich, co-founder of the Culinary Historians of Canada, and Elizabeth Baird, CHC member, have collaborated on a lovely little book, Setting a Fine Table: Historical Desserts and Drinks from the Officers’ Kitchens at Fort York. It is a mouth-watering selection of cakes, cookies, pastries, puddings, and drinks from Fort York National Historic Site. Research and testing was done by the fort’s Volunteer Historic Cooks. The recipes, drawn from British, American, and Canadian cookbooks of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, are featured in the Historic Foodways Programme which recreates the cooking practices and lifestyles of British officers in a fort in Upper Canada in the early 19th century. The thirty favourites include the original, historic recipe as well as its modern equivalent. Each is introduced by an explanation of why it was chosen, how it would have been used in the fort in the past, and how it is used there today. With beautiful photographs and a bibliography of the original sources this book will appeal to everyone interested in historic cooking and Canada’s past.
Published by Whitecap Books at $19.95, Setting a Fine Table is available at the Canteen at Fort York and bookstores across Canada.
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