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The Pioneer Kitchen

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Cover of cookbook, GOD BLESS OUR HOME Source

  

Title page of cookbook, GOD BLESS OUR HOME Source

  

Page 174 of cookbook, GOD BLESS OUR HOME, presenting the beginning of chapter 14, reading CURIOSITIES OF FOOD, with text in two columns illustrated with a drawing of a steaming pot of soup Source

  

Page [175] of cookbook, GOD BLESS OUR HOME, presenting the second page of chapter 14, with illustrations of fish, a roast and poultry in the margin Source

Una Abrahamson. God Bless Our Home: Domestic Life in Nineteenth Century Canada. [Toronto]: Burns and MacEachern, 1966

One of the earliest recorders of Canadian domestic history was Una Abrahamson: "I want my children to have an understanding and a pride in their inheritance, to know and to understand the self-reliance, the courage as well as the joys and tragedies of our recent past" (p. viii).

Title page of cookbook, OUT OF OLD ONTARIO KITCHENS: A COLLECTION OF TRADITIONAL RECIPES OF ONTARIO AND THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO COOKED THEM Source

  

Unumbered page of cookbook, OUT OF OLD ONTARIO KITCHENS…, featuring a reproduction of the title page for a 1916 cookbook entitled THE CANADIAN HOUSEWIFE'S MANUAL OF COOKERY Source

  

Page 28 of cookbook, OUT OF OLD ONTARIO KITCHENS…, with text discussing early Ontario cookbooks Source

Christina Bates. Out of Old Ontario Kitchens: A Collection of Traditional Recipes of Ontario and the Stories of the People Who Cooked Them. Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1978

As well as reproducing recipes from books used in early Ontario kitchens, the author provides information about the cookbooks that were available at the time, often including their publishing history.

Cover of cookbook, PIONEER COOKING IN ONTARIO: RECIPES FROM ONTARIO HISTORICAL SITES, featuring a colour photograph of a chicken roasting over a fireplace Source

  

Pioneer Cooking in Ontario: Recipes from Ontario Historical Sites. Toronto: NC Press, 1988

A collection of pioneer and Victorian recipes as prepared at the many museums and pioneer villages throughout Ontario.

Cover of cookbook, MACDONALD WAS LATE FOR DINNER: A SLICE OF CULINARY LIFE IN EARLY CANADA, featuring a colour photograph of a place set with silver and fancy china, and a gold pocket watch Source

  

Page 139 of cookbook, MACDONALD WAS LATE FOR DINNER…, with a text on the lumber barons, entitled THE AXE-WIELDING BARONS, and recipes for Strawberry or Raspberry Whisk and Cabbage Salad Source

  

Page [137] of cookbook, MACDONALD WAS LATE FOR DINNER…, with a photograph of lumbermen riding a log crib down a timber slide behind the Parliament Buildings Source

Patricia Beeson. Macdonald Was Late for Dinner: A Slice of Culinary Life in Early Canada. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1993

A fascinating collection of period photographs, stories and recipes from 19th-century books and cooks.
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