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

1957 - starts after deer hunted with dressing the kill, then hanging and butchering, and recipes at end. Input from Marlboro College prof of forestry.

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…

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,…

Green Mountain Whittlin's LIV, 28: fishing with dad on Shelburne Pond for pickerel, northern pike, northern walleye, perch, fried to eat or canned for winter chowder

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…

A 1952 advisory bulletin on sheep-farming in Vermont with stats and details on wool market oppty (Boston biggest national market) and a little on lamb meat.

Section four: Many Languages, Many Cultures includes details on foodways of French-Canadians (p. 77), Italian (p. 88 & 91), Polish (p. 94 & 96-98), Armenian (102), Syrian (107-108), Lebanese (113).