Off and on during the past couple of weeks, I’ve been busy scouring my collection of historic cookbooks, trying to decide which receipts to use in the first installment of my Fireside Feasts program out at Wyckoff. Of course, I had to start by determining what types of dishes would best illustrate next week’s topic, [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Food forensics
Posted in historic cookbooks, historic cooking, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, tagged food forensics, historic cookbook searches on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Guinea Fowl, redux
Posted in culinary history, historic cookbooks, historic receipts (recipes), research & experiments, tagged birds of the table, culinary history, guinea fowl, historic cookbooks on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve looked in nearly all my historic cookbooks, and I didn’t find any receipts (recipes) specifically for guinea hen (aka guinea fowl). I imagine, though, that any for your basic fowl, be it chicken or turkey or another, would be appropriate. In addition, according to a couple of sources I found while doing research [...]


