Many of the typical Modern American recipes for cookies are very much like the old formulas. The vast step forward in American culinary art is not so much a definite change in the kinds of foods prepared as in the methods of preparation. The American woman has discarded slow, meticulous methods brought from the Old
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The old Dutch recipes of New York and Pennsylvania seemed to have been absorbed by the housewives of English origin. But occasionally one will be the recipient of a recipe from a Van Home or a Van Buskirk, with the assurance that it is real old Dutch. One immediately goes to the kitchen to try
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Oatmeal cookies originated in Scotland, it is said, though a surprising number of these recipes can be found in America. Oatmeal cookies are more common now in New England than they are in the South but there was such an interchange of recipes between housewives in New England and their relatives and friends in the
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The melting pot that has taken people from many lands and fused them into our sturdy American stock has been just as busy evolving a typical American cookery. American cookery had its greatest influence at first from English, Scotch and Dutch cooking as it was practiced in the early seventeenth century. Then came the French
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America has one city that stands apart from its neighbors, New Orleans. New Orleans has managed to hold on to its glamour, which is the very soul of it. One finds a little Tea Shop tucked away in a narrow thoroughfare, a banquette, of the French Quarter. One is so interested in the beautiful old
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New England and Virginia were settled by the same stock from England. The old recipes that follow are found especially in New England households that have cherished their colonial traditions for generations. Now, women all across America take pride in passing these recipes on! Here are some tried, tested and true Old English recipes, sure
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