1831 Cottage Potatoe Pudding Or Cake Cook Not Mad - Old Cook Book Show - Glen And Friends CookingThe recipe today is from the 1831 American printing of a rather strange little cookbook called "The Cook Not Mad Or Rational Cookery..." the title goes on from there as was the custom for cookbook titles in this period. Overall the book is a mishmash of recipes gathered word for word from other sources, and presented with a very Pro American / Anti European bent in the wording of the introduction. There is a Myth created and perpetuated by a modern day book publisher that this was Canada's first cookbook... but it wasn't. It's a great story that sold countless reprints in museum gift shops across Canada; but sadly just a fabrication to sell more books.Yes I know Potato isn't spelled 'Potatoe'... but that's the way it was often spelled in cookbooks during this time period and this old cookbook is no exception.No 86. Cottage potatoe Pudding or Cake.Boil and pare and mash two pounds of potatoes, beat them fine with a pint of milk, two ounces of sugar, three eggs, bake three quarters of an hour. A quarter of a pound of raisins or currants may be added, or leave out the milk and add a quarter of butter, it will make a good cake.#LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking #OldCookbookShowrecipe,Glen And Friends Cooking,old cookbook show,1831 Cottage Potatoe Pudding Or Cake,historical recipes,1800s cooking,tasting history,cooking history,food history,100 year old recipes,old cookbook recipes,community cookbook recipes,cooking with glen,cooking up history,18th century cooking,18 century cooking,historical recipe,historical food,19th century cooking,the cook not mad cookbook,canadas first cookbook,history cooking,edible history
