It takes the average reader 1 hour and 1 minute to read American Cookery 1796 by Amelia Simmons
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Amelia Simmons worked as a domestic in Colonial America and gathered her cookery expertise from firsthand experience. Her book points out the best ways of judging the quality of meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, etc., and presents the best methods of preparing and cooking them. In choosing fish, poultry, and other meats, the author wisely advises, �their smell denotes their goodness.� Her sound suggestions for choosing the freshest and most tender onions, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, asparagus, lettuce, cabbage, beans, and other vegetables are as timely today as they were nearly 200 years ago.Here are the first uniquely American recipes using corn meal - Indian pudding, �Johnny cake,� and Indian slapjacks - as well as the first recipes for pumpkin pudding, winter squash pudding, and for brewing spruce beer.
American Cookery 1796 by Amelia Simmons is 59 pages long, and a total of 15,281 words.
This makes it 20% the length of the average book. It also has 19% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 23 minutes to read American Cookery 1796 aloud.
American Cookery 1796 is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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