The Boulder Cook Book

[JPK Huson 1863]

The Boulder Cook Book

Boulder, Colorado, The Boulder Publishing Company, 1909.

" A book of Tried and True recipes furnished by the Ladies of Boulder and published under the Auspices of the Catholic Church "

I take quite a few from this book, also, and when I have time to post more in this forum will use it. It's awesome reading regardless. For instance, I truly did not know real mince meat had MEAT in it, silly I know. Mince meat pies? I've been eating them for years and made some- never knew the old mince featured beef!

 

[diane]

The Boulder Cook Book

Boulder, Colorado, The Boulder Publishing Company, 1909.

" A book of Tried and True recipes furnished by the Ladies of Boulder and published under the Auspices of the Catholic Church "

I take quite a few from this book, also, and when I have time to post more in this forum will use it. It's awesome reading regardless. For instance, I truly did not know real mince meat had MEAT in it, silly I know. Mince meat pies? I've been eating them for years and made some- never knew the old mince featured beef!

Great-great auntie made the most succulent and downright decadent mincemeat pies I've ever had - always had meat in it but you'd never know! It was long down the road when great-auntie, her daughter, gave me a slice of her mincemeat pie. Thoughts of great-great auntie's filled my head - and shattered.... Great-auntie must have learned nothing at her mother's knee but what a knobby knee looked like... It had big chunks of meat and would gag a maggot. Thought I was gonna die... But! It didn't put me off mincemeat!

 

[lakertaker]

Great-great auntie made the most succulent and downright decadent mincemeat pies I've ever had - always had meat in it but you'd never know! It was long down the road when great-auntie, her daughter, gave me a slice of her mincemeat pie. Thoughts of great-great auntie's filled my head - and shattered.... Great-auntie must have learned nothing at her mother's knee but what a knobby knee looked like... It had big chunks of meat and would gag a maggot. Thought I was gonna die... But! It didn't put me off mincemeat!

Wonder if mincemeat's a regional dish? Can't say I've ever heard of anyone in my neck of the woods serving it? In Minnesota, we're not known for great diversity in the culinary arts - unless ya like hot dishes.

 

[donna]

Annie

Thanks for post on the cook book. I love old or new cook books.

 

[Carronade]

Ah! - from the title I thought it was the recipe for rock soup

 

[diane]

Mincemeat pie, as I understand it, is an old English dish from medieval times. The Crusaders brought back spices from the Mid-East and these covered up the taste of meat that wasn't so fresh any more. Then it became a tradition for a meat pie at Christmas that contained three spices - think it was cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon - to represent the three gifts of the Magi. It gained more ingredients - fruits, vinegar, brandy, more spices and so on. It came over here with the Puritans, and at one time was banned in Boston as being too frivolous and sinful to indulge in.

Probably the strangest mincemeat pie came about Christmas of 1861 in the Washington Territory, when New Englanders most sincerely missed their mincemeat pie. By then the main ingredient was venison but it was lean times. Well, there was a Makah reservation nearby and the Makah were fine whalers. They brought a chunk of whale meat to the whites. The resourceful New Englanders minced it up and packed it into a barrel with apples, cranberries, spices, sugar and lots of rum. At the proper time they baked their mincemeat pies and they were a smashing success - nobody noticed it was whale meat!