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1963 - Classic Yankee recipes from prolific East Thetford-based author, ingredients, practices including home-churned butter/buttermilk, keeping dishes warm on the back of the stove, store cheese, how to freeze soup outside. Recipes with salt cod,…

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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,…

Posts/articles by former Vt secretary of agriculture about events/evolutions in Vermont's agricultural history.

November 1988 interview with Drs. Taylor/Foulds of UVM interviews about changes in sugaring technology from the 1940s on. Also mention of Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Assoc. early days.

1988 interview with Helen Nearing re the Nearings' "The Maple Sugaring Book", sugaring details from when they lived in Vermont, also details on their homesteading life in Vermont

cassette only interview about Native American maple tools (p. 12)

1990 - Focus on hunted and foraged ingredients. Not much text but good variety recipes with some how-tos, e.g. 98 - how to collect and cook cattail shoots and prepare milkweed (scanned), eels, smelts, trout, big game: bear, moose, venison, foraged…

This database was prepared as part of the Cultural History component of the Taste of Plate / Palate Project undertaken by the VT Agency of Agriculture in 2010. It is intended to provide researchers and others interested in the history of Vermont’s…

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…

ch 8 - "Merinos, Morgans, Maple Syrup and Milk" (64-68) covers phases in Vt agriculture from beef to sheep to dairy. Ch 18 "Hunting" (127-131) covers deer, small game, waterfowl. Fishing (132-134) is a brief overview with some notes on best…
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