Literary Eats
Emily Dickinson’s Gingerbread, Ernest Hemingway’s Picadillo, Eudora Welty’s Onion Pie and 400+ Other Recipes from American Authors Past and Present
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This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book should appeal to amateur chefs and so-called “foodies” who may want to test some of the recipes in their kitchens; to American literature instructors and scholars who may use it as a teaching tool; and general readers who will read it for pleasure. In effect, this is a celebrity cookbook to which many literary celebrities, living and dead, have contributed, among them Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, Harlan Ellison, Ursula Le Guin, Benjamin Franklin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, Lafcadio Hearn, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Elmore Leonard, Bobbie Ann Mason, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gertrude Stein, Onoto Watanna, Eudora Welty, Walt Whitman, and Gerald Vizenor.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Gary Scharnhorst
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 228
Bibliographic Info: 34 photos, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2014
pISBN: 978-0-7864-7548-3
eISBN: 978-1-4766-1252-2
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
The Recipes
Conrad Aiken 5 • Scrapple
Bronson and Louisa May Alcott 5 • Berry Pudding Without Eggs • Biscuit Without Milk • Cake Without Eggs • Ginger Snaps • Graham Cake • Tomato Catsup
Horatio Alger, Jr. 6 • Egg Plant Pilau • Graham Muffins
David Amram 7 • Omelette
Rudolfo Anaya 7 • Sardinas de Lata (Sardines from the Can)
Sherwood Anderson 9 • Baked Ham
Anonymous 9 • Boston Brown Bread • Breakfast Dish • Cheese Relish • Chowder, an Old Recipe • Colonial Punch • Corn Bread • Corn Pone • Eve’s Pudding • Oatmeal Pudding • Old Virginia Mince Pie • Oyster Cocktail • Plum Pudding • Plum Pudding • Stewed Duck and Peas
Susan B. Anthony 16 • Apple Tapioca Pudding
Catharine Beecher 17 • Cheapest Beef • Coffee • Fish Skin for Coffee • French Pot au Feu • Fricassee Chickens • Mush or Hasty Pudding • Shoulder of Lamb • Spanish
Olla-Podrida • Succotash • Tomato Catsup
Henry Ward Beecher 20 Barbeque • Biscuits • Reed-Birds • Succotash, or Corn and Beans • Tomatoes • Turtle Bean Soup
Elizabeth Bishop 22 • Brownies
Lillie Devereux Blake 23 • Last Century Blackberry Pudding • Tropic Delicacy
Edwin Booth—Breakfast at Delmonico’s 23 • Terrine de fois gras (Terrine entière de foies-gras)
Kay Boyle 24 • Ratatouille Rowayton
Oliver Bell Bunce 25 • Dandelion Wine • Orange Loaf Cake • Robert E. Lee Cake
John Burroughs 26 • A Frickasie (Colonial Recipe)
John Cage 27 • Homemade Bread
Helen Campbell 28 • Candied or Crystallized Fruit or Nuts • Deviled Ham • Gingersnaps • Irish Stew • Tomato Catsup
Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary 30 • Boiled Apple Dumplings • Compote of Apples • Minced Chicken • Plum Pudding • Snow Balls
Willa Cather 31 • Christmas Plum Pudding • Cream Pie
Raymond Chandler 33 • Gimlet
Denise Chávez 33 • Delfina Spanish—Really Mexican—Rice
Lydia Maria Child 33 • Beef • Currant Wine • Mince Meat • Plum
Pudding • Pumpkin and Squash Pie
Robert P. Tristram Coffin 35 • Lobster Stew
John Esten Cooke 36 • Perfection Salad
Rose Terry Cooke 36 • Frizzled Dried Beef • Scalloped Fish
Susan Coolidge 37 • Browned Oysters • Easy Chicken Salad • Molasses Pie • Rhode Island Johnny-Cake • Spiced Shad •
Squash Pies
William A. Croffut 39 • Clam Soup • Peas Stewed in Cream • Stuffed Cabbage • Sweet Pickle
Bernard DeVoto 40 • Lobster • Martinis à la DeVoto
Charles Dickens—Dinner at Delmonico’s 41 • Aspic of Foies-Gras (Aspic de foie-gras) • Bécassines (English Snipe, Broiled) •
Consommé à la Sévigné • Salmon à la Victoria (Saumon à la Victoria) • Tenderloin of Beef à la Lucullus (Filet de bœuf à la Lucullus)
Emily Dickinson 50 • Black Cake • Chocolate Dessert • Cocoanut Cake • Gingerbread
Dorothy Dix 52 • Barbequed Chicken
Abigail Scott Duniway 52 • Chicken and Gravy as Mother Did It • Pure Salt Rising Bread • Transparent Jelly (No. 1) • Transparent Jelly (No. 2)
Elizabeth Fries Ellet 53 • Jugged Hare • Scotch Haggis • Seven-Years’ Catsup
Harlan Ellison 54 • Café Ellison Diabolique
Nora Ephron 55 • Mashed Potatoes
William Faulkner 56 • Curing Hams Shoulders Bacon • Hot Toddy
Erna Fergusson 57 • Buñuelos or Sopaipillas (Fried Puffs) • Chile con Carne • Chiles Rellenos • Corn Meal Tortillas • Enchiladas with Flour Tortillas • Frijoles (Beans) • Green Corn with Green Chile • Posole (Hog and Hominy) • Quesadillas • Pastels (Pastry) • Pastelitos • Tortillas, Corn Meal
Annie Adams Fields 62 • French Toast • Walnut Cake
Zelda Fitzgerald 62 • Breakfast
Benjamin Franklin 62 • Apple Pudding (Pour faire un pudding de pommes) • Beer with Essence of Spruce (Maniere de faire de la Biere avec de l’Essence de Spruce) • Broiled Steaks (Tranches de bœuf grillées) • A Cheap and Good Soup • Mince Pie (Recette d’un pâté haché) • Orange Shrub • Oyster Sauce for Boiled Turkey (Sauce d’huitres pour un dindon bouilli) • Puff Paste (Pâte feuilletée) • Rice Pudding Baked (Pour faire un pudding de riz cuit au pour) • Roast Pig (Pour rôtir un cochon de lait) • Sauce for Boiled Ducks or Rabbits (Sauce pour des canards ou des lapins bouillis)
Jessie Benton Frémont 65 • Ham Bones
Horace Howard Furness 66 • Cream Cheese
Erle Stanley Gardner 66 • Case of the Caretaker’s Cat Cocktail
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 67 • Synthetic Quince
Allen Ginsberg 67 • Cold Summer Borscht
Grace Greenwood 68 • Prune Pudding
Sarah Josepha Hale 68 • Chicken Pie • Puff Paste • Pumpkin Pie • Roast Beef • Roasted Goose • Roasted Pork • Roasted Turkey • Stuffed Loin of Mutton
Gail Hamilton 71 • Beaten Biscuit • Blackberry Jam Cake • Brown Bread Cakes • Soft Gingerbread
Marion Harland 72 • Arrowroot Blanc-Mange • Beef Tea • Boiled Ham • Broiled Chicken • Brunswick Stew • Chicken Jelly • Chicken Pie • Country Pork Sausages • Fried Chicken • Galantine • Lobster Chowder • Mince Pies • Mother’s Crullers • Omelette aux Fines Herbes • Peach Marmalade • Potted Herrings • Pumpkin Pie • Ragout of Liver • Roast Chine • Roast Duck • Roast Pig • Roast Spare Rib • Roast Turkey • Strawberry Shortcake • Sweet Potato Pudding • Tomato Aspic and Shrimp Salad • White (Asparagus) Soup
Harvard Club of New York—Dinner at Delmonico’s 83 • Charlotte
Russe • Consummé Imperial (Consommé à l’Imperiale) • Potatoes Souffléd (Pommes de terre soufflés) • Sweetbreads, Parisian Style (Ris de veau à la Parisienne) • Italian Salad (Salade à l’Italienne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne 90 • Corned Beef
Lafcadio Hearn 91 • Boston Brown Bread • Bouille-Abaisse • Calves’ Feet Jelly • Country Fried Chicken • Crayfish Bisque • Gelatine Snow Pudding • Gumbo of Okra or Filee • Graham Muffins for Dyspeptics • Jambalaya of Fowls and Rice • Mint Juleps • Pudding • Rich Wedding Cake or Black Cake • Tomato Catsup • Tomato Soup with Vegetables
Lillian Hellman 95 • Pot Roast
Ernest Hemingway 95 • Bloody Mary • Chop Suey • Daiquiri • Fried Trout • Picadillo
John Hersey 98 • Sliced Steak Sandwich
Isabella Beecher Hooker 98 • Soup Regency • Sponge Cake • Veal Croquettes
Robinson Jeffers 99 • For a Poet’s Palate
Thomas Jefferson 99 • Apple Toddy • Ice Cream • Persimmon Beer
Ronald Johnson 101 • Green Chile Sauce • Huevos Rancheros • Mexican Summer Soup
Helen Keller 102 • Golden Gate Salad
Jack Kerouac 102 • Green Pea Soup • Pâte de Porc Gras
Caroline Kirkland 103 • Bread
Ted Kooser 104 • How to Make Rhubarb Wine
Ring Lardner 105 • Dry Martini
Harper Lee 105 • Crackling Bread
Ursula K. Le Guin 105 • Crab Nebula • Líriv Metadí or Valley Succotash • Primitive Chocolate Mousse
Elmore Leonard 107 • Elmore’s Southron Breakfast Treats
Aldo Leopold 107 • Deer Steaks
Eliza Leslie 108 • Beefsteak (Broiled) • Beefsteak (Fried) • Catfish Soup • Fine Puff Paste • French Mustard • Green Corn Pudding • Lemon Pudding • Lobster • Maccaroni • Mock Turtle or Calf’s Head Soup • Mushroom Catsup • Pepper Pot • Pickled Oysters • Pickled Tomatoes • Pork and Beans • Roasted Beef’s Heart • Stewed Carp • Tomato Catsup
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 115 • Boudin Blanc (White
Buffalo Sausage)
Olive Logan 116 • Veal Cutlets in Papillottes (Curl-papers)
Jack and Charmian London 116 • Corned Beef and Cabbage • Hawaiian Salad • Italian Spaghetti • Roast Duck
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 118 • Veal Cutlets with Tomato Sauce • Vegetable Soup
Anita Loos 119 • Kitten’s Tongue
James Russell Lowell 119 • Eleanor Makes Macaroons
Charles Fletcher Lummis 120 • Atole de Piña (Pineapple Gruel) • Cajeta de Camote y Piña • Cajeta de Celaya • Cajeta de Leche • Candied Peaches • Chile Sauce • Chiles Rellenos de Picadillo (Stuffed Green Peppers) • Gato De Liebre (Hare Pie) • Guaxolote en Mole Verde (Turkey in Green Sauce) • Ostras de la Buena Mujer (Good Woman’s Oysters) • Pichones Borrachos (Drunken Pigeons) • Pollos de la Bella Mulata (Chicken à la the Beautiful Mulatto) • Quesadillas de Prisa (Hurry-up Cheese Cakes) • Stuffed Potatoes (Peru and Bolivia)
John D. MacDonald 125 • Ceviche de Caracol • Meyer’s Superior Cocktail Dip • Tolbert’s Chili for One Hundred
Mary Peabody Mann 126 • Pandowdy • Pigeon Soup • Scalloped Oysters • Sponge Cake
Bobbie Ann Mason 128 • Boiled Custard
Mary McCarthy 128 • Meat Loaf
Herman Melville 129 • Clam Chowder
H. L. Mencken 130 • Jump Stiddy
S. Weir Mitchell 130 • Milk • Raw Soup • Tea
Vladimir Nabokov 131 • Eggs à la Nabocoque
Lorine Niedecker 132 • Bread Pudding • Chicken Loaf • Corn and Cheese Fondue • Jello Salad • Swedish Meatballs
Catherine Owen 134 • American Walnut Catsup • Cigarettes à la Reine • Compote of Pigeons • Cutlets Chaudfroid à la Russe • Genoa Cake • Mock Haggis
Walker Percy 137 • Cud’n Walker’s Uncle Will’s Favorite Mint Julep Receipt
Katherine Anne Porter 137 • Genuine Mole Poblana
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 138 • Alligator-Tail Steak • Blackbird Pie • Crab à la Newburg • Okra à la Cross Creek • Wild Duck
Mary Roberts Rinehart 141 • Baked Tomatoes
Kenneth Roberts 142 • Beans • Hot Buttered Rum • Stewed Coot
Theodore Roosevelt 143 • Mint Julep—Kentucky Style • Spice Cake
Dori Sanders 145 • Easy Peach Cobbler
Saturday Club of Boston 146 • Parker House Rolls
Benjamin Shillaber 147 • Boston Baked Bean • Cucumber Catsup
Lydia Sigourney 147 • Apples with Cream • Beef Soup • Calves’ Feet Jelly • Cordials • Raisin Pudding
Leslie Marmon Silko 150 • Bacardi Golden Rum Cake
Upton Sinclair 151 • Apples
Gary Snyder 151 • How to Make Stew in the Picante Desert—Recipe for Locke & Drum
William Stafford 152 • Gormeh Salzee (Persian Lamb and Parsley Stew)
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas 153 • Bass for Picasso • Chowder Alice B. Toklas and Pâte à Beignets • Gougère, a Burgundian Pastry • Haschich Fudge
John Steinbeck 156 • Mysterious Striped Bass • Old Fashioned Slaw
Harriet Beecher Stowe 157 • Bread and Fruit Pudding
Gene Stratton-Porter 158 • Miner’s Lettuce Salad
Luci Tapahonso 158 • Náneeskaadí (Indian Bread or Tortillas)
Ida Tarbell 159 • How to Mix a Salad
Bayard Taylor 159 • Gothic Punch
Bayard Taylor—Dinner at Delmonico’s 159 • Bigarade Sauce (Sauce à la bigarade) • Lima Beans, Thickened Mâitre d’Hôtel (Haricots flageolets, maitre-d’hotel) • Green Peas, English Style (Petits pois a l’Anglaise) • Potatoes, Dauphine (Pommes de terre Dauphine) • Shrimp Sauce (Sauce aux crevettes) • Tenderloin Steak with Madeira, Half-Glaze (Filet de bœuf au madère, demi-glace) • Tomatoes Stuffed with Fresh Mushrooms (Tomates farcies aux champignons frais) • Young America Sherbet (Sorbet jeune Amérique)
Albert Payson Terhune 164 • Sunnybank Guava Salad
Octave Thanet 165 • Christmas Plum Pudding • Rich Dark Pudding • Salmi of Prairie Chicken (Grouse)
Celia Thaxter 166 • Graham Pie
Mark Twain 167 • Ash Cake • German Coffee • New English Pie • Whiskey and Bitters
Mark Twain—Dinner at Delmonico’s 168 • Baltimore Terrapin (Terrapin à la Baltimore) • Coffee • Consommé à la Souveraine • Cucumbers • Fried Hominy and Currant Jelly • Green Turtle Soup • Mushrooms on Toast with Cream •
Mushrooms Sautés à la Crême • Oysters • Périgordine Timbales • Potatoes English Style, Persillade Balls (Pommes à l’Anglaise, en boules persillade) • Quail Roasted, Plain • Red Head Duck, Roasted (Canards sauvages à tête rouge rôtis) • Saddle of Lamb, Sauce Colbert • Salad: Celery Mayonnaise • Stuffed Tomatoes
Carl Van Vechten 177 • Garlic Ice Cream (a dressing for salad) • Viennese Cheese Pancakes
Metta Victor 178 • Green Tomato Pickles • Head Cheese • Oyster Catsup • Tomato Chowder
Gerald Vizenor 179 • Banquet Français
Sam Ward 180 • Grouse, Roasted à la Sam Ward • Ham • Sam Ward Hashed Filet of Beef • Verses for the Kitchen
Robert Penn Warren 182 • Insidious Punch
Booker T. Washington 182 • Pommes de Terre Sautees (Sautéed Potato) • Roast Turkey with Sauce Diable
George Washington 184 • Small Beer
Otono Watanna 186 • Fried Bamboo Shoots • Gai Grun Yung Waa (Bird’s-nest Soup) • Mushi Kujira (Boiled Whale or Bass) • Roast Squab • Usagi Amai-Sui (Sweet and Sour Hare)
Daniel Webster 189 • Punch
Eudora Welty 189 • Barbeque Sauce • Beaten Biscuit • Catfish • Fish Court Bouillon • Jellied Apples • Lye Hominy • Mint Julep • Okra Gumbo • Seafood Gumbo • Spanish Rice • Stuffed Eggs
Walt Whitman 192 • Coffee Cake • Doughnuts
A. D. T. Whitney 194 • Brown Bread • One-Two-Three-Four Cookies
Kate Douglas Wiggin 195 • Large Family Bread • Novelty Cake • Substitute Washington Pie
Tennessee Williams 196 • Grits
Owen Wister 197 • Lady Baltimore Cake
E. L. Youmans 197 • Chetney of Chicken • Curry of Chicken
Notes 199
Further Reading 205
Index of Recipes 209