200 Year Old Recipes

Here is dinner and dessert.

These recipes comes from the first American cookbook.

The cover reads as follows.

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AMERICAN COOKERY
By AMELIA SIMMONS, AN AMERICAN ORPHAN.
PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS 1796

Alamode Beef

Take a round of beef, and stuff it with half pound pork, half pound of butter, the soft of half a loaf of wheat bread, boil four eggs very hard, chop them up; add sweet marjoram, sage, parsley, summer savory, and one ounce of cloves pounded, chop them all together, with two eggs very fine, and add a gill of wine, season very high with salt and pepper, cut holes in your beef, to put your stuffing in, then stick whole cloves into the beef, then put it into a two pail pot, with sticks at the bottom, if you wish to have the beef round when done, put it into a cloth and bind it tight with 20 or 30 yards of twine, put it into your pot with two or three quarts of water, and one gill of wine, if the round be large it will take three or four hours to bake it.
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Baked Custard.

Four eggs beat and put to one quart cream, sweetened to your taste, half a nutmeg, and a little cinnamon – bake.