TY - BOOK AU - Simmons,Amelia TI - American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables AV - TX PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Cooking, American -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Cookery; Release date is 2004-07-04; Produced by David Starner, Keith M. Eckrich, the PG Online Distributed Proofreaders Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables" by Amelia Simmons is a cookbook published in 1796. This groundbreaking work marks the first cookbook written by an American author, declaring culinary independence from British traditions. Simmons introduced distinctly American ingredients and dishes—Indian pudding, johnnycake, pumpkin pie, and turkey with cranberries—while pioneering the use of pearlash as a chemical leavener. Written by a self-described orphan with limited formal education, this influential cookbook adapted English cooking methods to American products and remained popular for decades. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12815 ER -