The Colonial Cookbook Author:Lucille Recht Penner Colonial cooks needed courage, ingenuity, and patience just to put food on the table. Imagine gathering ingredients when there are no stores to shop in and when winter closes off the supply of fresh food. Imagine storing food without refrigeration or tin cans, cooking without electricity or gas -- with nothing, in fact, but a wood fire and an ... more »iron pot. Here are 49 delicious, easy-to-make recipes takes from cookbooks, travelers' guides and diaries of the period.« less