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1885 - From St. Johnsbury benefit for church, but recipes from New England and other parts of Vermont. Classic of its time with poor man's pudding (French-Canadian), how to cure ham with proportions for 100 pounds meat), puddings, pickles.

1897 - Springfield. Includes ads for Horsford's baking powder "recommended by physicians" (and specified in some recipes) and a food market promising "Meat of all kinds. We keep constantly on hand Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Ham, Tripe, Sausage,…

1942 - First cookbook from Louise Andrews Kent, renowned Vermont Life cooking columnist. Her inimitable approach blending useful tips and lore - horehound candy (81), apple-tree cheese (94, fresh hung from tree), fried salt pork with sour cream gravy…

Four-part series about one family's food cultivation and prepararation in the late 1800s with the Robinsons who lived in Ferrisburgh, where Rokeby Museum now exists. Based on journals, letters and other historical data. Includes details on Merino…

Various references to food eaten at farms and taverns, including farmstead cheesemaking.

116-122 - "Adjustment to Frontier Conditions" chapter includes good food/agriculture details of late 1770s settlers/homesteaders. Detail on corn, dariy cows, hogs, venison, bear, plumping mills to grind corn before grist mills, vegetable gardens,…

1999 - Funded by Vermont Office of Minority Health. Dawnland is a nonprofit org for American Indian people in Vt. Recipes include healthier choices plus some info on indigenous foods and tradtl recipes like cattail pollen flapjacks, wild green salad,…

1982 - Written by a dairy farmer in Tinmouth with early history of Vermont settlement and information on foodways (unsourced) through community suppers, sugaring, hunting to "ethnic" contributions . Includes recipes from acorn bread to chicken pie…

A 1950 advisory bulletin, now that 20% of Vermont families have "freezing facilities", on how to freeze, retain nutrition of frozen vegetables and varieties best to freeze.

1970 - shows increasing cultural diversity of foodways with recipes from different ethnic groups including German butter dumplings, yogurt and meatball soup "from an Armenian friend," La Stufata (Italian pot roast made with dried mushrooms),…
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