Secrets of Fat Free Kosher Cooking or A Colonial Plantation Cookbook

Secrets of Fat-Free Kosher Cooking: Over 150 Low-Fat and Fat-Free Traditional and Contemporary Recipes from Matzoh Balls to Kugel

Author: Deborah Bernstein

Secrets of Fat-Free Kosher Cooking begins with a brief introduction to the laws of kosher cooking, and then guides you through some nutrition basics. It then shows how the use of low-fat ingredients coupled with appropriate cooking methods can turn once high-fat foods into delicious low-fat alternatives. This exciting collection includes such kosher classics as plump pierogen and knishes, crisp potato latkes, and old fashioned chicken soup complete with fluffy matzoh balls. Choose from a wide variety of hearty chulents and kugels, as well as dessert classics like prune-filled hamantaschen, creamy cheese blintzes, and sweet honey cake. There is even an amazing recipe for low-fat challah - the traditional bread of the Sabbath and holidays.

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A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pickney Horry, 1770

Author: Richard James Hooker

Harriott Pinckney Horry began her receipt book more than two hundred years ago. It is being published now for the first time.

You will get a lively sense of what colonial plantation life was like from reading Harriott's receipt book. She began it in 1770, shortly after she was married, writing recipes and household information in a notebook. Her recipes reflect both English and French culinary traditions. You will recognize in the recipes the origins of some of your contemporary favorites.

Harriott writes also about keeping the dairy and smokehouse, how to dye clothes, what to do about insects, how to care for trees and crops, and how to make soap, all skills she learned in the course of managing the plantation after her husband's early death.

From Harriott's writing and Hooker's knowledgeable introduction and editorial notes, you will learn what it was like to be well-to-do and a member of Southern aristocracy, living in a world of rice and indigo planters, merchants, lawyers, and politicians-the colonial elite. Because knowing about food preferences and eating habits of any people expands our understanding of their nature and times, the receipt book of Harriott Pinckney Horry opens another window on the history of colonial plantations.