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detail on home-brewing cider and cider vinegar from the 30s and 40s

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,…

1925 - story of group who help spread the word/practice of canning with price list - vegetables, fruits, meats, jellies

1940 - compiled by women's club and includes ads for dairy/milk. Interesting mix of traditional from-scratch recipes and recipes depending on packaged products . Recipes include Kool-Aid as well as grape juice made from mashed grapes; Spry pie shell…

2000 - Self-published memoir starting in 1890 of author's grandmother on farm in Hydeville with daily farm life and recipes like salt pork with dandelion or cowslip greens (29) and butchering details (107) with recipes for sausage, head cheese,…

1984 - Example of late 20th century community cookbook that shares context for tradtl recipes. Community-style cookbook with recipes and first-person anecdotes e.g. ginger beer/switchel/sumac lemonade for haying (3-5), wild Jerusalem artichoke soup…

In this account of her childhood in Braintree, VT, Katharine elaborates on the many roles held by apple cider.

1987 - Recipes from fabled Montpelier vegetarian restaurant.

Within chapter on farm vacations: "That Dream of Home: Northern New England and the Farm Vacation Industry, 1890-1900" re types of foods the tourism bureau recommended serving, 157-162.

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,…