Sold: A Black Texan Trailblazer's 'Treasure Chest' of Recipes

[O' Be Joyful]

Sold: A Black Texan Trailblazer's 'Treasure Chest' of Recipes

Lucille Bishop Smith's famous recipe boxes are still sought after.

www.atlasobscura.com

 

[diane]

Obi, here's another article on Lucille Bishop Smith with a couple of her recipes. I am soooo trying those chili biscuits!

Lucille B. Smith blazed trails as black culinary entrepreneur

Lucille Bishop Smith was a chef, educator, entrepreneur and food corporation president who has been called the first African-American businesswoman in Texas. She is credited with inventing the firs…

www.chicagotribune.com

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Obi, here's another article on Lucille Bishop Smith with a couple of her recipes. I am soooo trying those chili biscuits!

Lucille B. Smith blazed trails as black culinary entrepreneur

Lucille Bishop Smith was a chef, educator, entrepreneur and food corporation president who has been called the first African-American businesswoman in Texas. She is credited with inventing the firs…

www.chicagotribune.com

Bookmarked into my recipes.

 

[5fish]

Here an 1863 Confederate recipe book... there recipes for favored Beer.... click on link...

Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times

snip...

SPRUCE BEER.--
Take three gallons of water, blood warmth, three half pints of molasses, a tablespoonful of essence of spruce, and the like quantity of ginger, mix well together with a gill of yeast, let it stand over night, and bottle it in the morning. It will be in a good condition to drink in twenty-four hours.

 

[5fish]

Here is a list of civil war recipes...

Authentic Civil War Recipes

A simpler time: recreate these historical battleground recipes in your own modern kitchen.

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Mrs. Cornelius’s Molasses Apple Pie

Confederate Johnny Cake

Mary Todd Lincoln’s White Cake

Beef or Mutton Soup

Captain Sanderson’s Boiled Pork and Bean Soup