Literary Eats

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

The Recipes

Conrad Aiken delete5?*?Scrapple

Bronson and Louisa May Alcott delete5?*?Berry Pudding Without Eggs?*?Biscuit Without Milk?*?Cake Without Eggs?*?Ginger Snaps?*?Graham Cake?*?Tomato Catsup

Horatio Alger, Jr. delete6?*?Egg Plant Pilau?*?Graham Muf?ns

David Amram delete7?*?Omelette

Rudolfo Anaya delete7?*?Sardinas de Lata (Sardines from the Can)

Sherwood Anderson delete9?*?Baked

Anonymous delete9?*?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 delete16?*?Apple Tapioca Pudding

Catharine Beecher delete17?*?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 delete20 deleteBarbeque?*?Biscuits?*?Reed--Birds?* Succotash, or Corn and Beans?*?Tomatoes?*?Turtle Bean Soup

Elizabeth Bishop delete22?*?Brownies

Lillie Devereux Blake delete23?*?Last Century Blackberry Pudding?* Tropic Delicacy

Edwin Booth-Breakfast at Delmonico's delete23?*?Terrine de fois gras (Terrine entiere de -foies--gras)

Kay Boyle delete24?*?Ratatouille Rowayton

Oliver Bell Bunce delete25?*?Dandelion Wine?*?Orange Loaf Cake?* Robert E. Lee Cake

John Burroughs delete26?*?A Frickasie (Colonial Recipe)

John Cage delete27?*?Homemade Bread

Helen Campbell delete28?*?Candied or Crystallized Fruit or Nuts *?Deviled Ham?*?Gingersnaps?*?Irish Stew?*?Tomato Catsup

Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary delete30?*?Boiled Apple Dumplings * Compote of Apples?*?Minced Chicken?*?Plum Pudding?*?Snow Balls

Willa Cather delete31?*?Christmas Plum Pudding?*?Cream

Raymond Chandler delete33?*?Gimlet

Denise Chavez delete33?*?Del?na Spanish-Really Mexican-Rice

Lydia Maria Child delete33?*?Beef?*?Currant Wine?*?Mince Meat?*?Plum

Pudding?*?Pumpkin and Squash

Robert P. Tristram Cof?n delete35?*?Lobster Stew

John Esten Cooke delete36?*?Perfection Salad

Rose Terry Cooke delete36?*?Frizzled Dried Beef?*?Scalloped Fish

Susan Coolidge delete37?*?Browned Oysters?*?Easy Chicken Salad * Molasses Pie?*?Rhode Island -Johnny-Cake?*?Spiced Shad?*

Squash Pies

William A. Croffut delete39?*?Clam Soup?*?Peas Stewed in Cream * Stuffed Cabbage?*?Sweet Pickle

Bernard DeVoto delete40?*?Lobster?*?Martinis a la DeVoto

Charles Dickens-Dinner at Delmonico's delete41?*?Aspic of -Foies--Gras (Aspic de -foie--gras)?*?Becassines (English Snipe, Broiled) *

Consomme a la Sevigne?*?Salmon a la Victoria (Saumon a la Victoria)?*?Tenderloin of Beef a la Lucullus (Filet de boeuf a la Lucullus)

Emily Dickinson delete50?*?Black Cake?*?Chocolate Dessert?*?Cocoanut Cake?*?Gingerbread

Dorothy Dix delete52?*?Barbequed Chicken

Abigail Scott Duniway delete52?*?Chicken and Gravy as Mother Did It?* Pure Salt Rising Bread?*?Transparent Jelly (No. 1)?*?Transparent Jelly (No. 2)

Elizabeth Fries Ellet delete53?*?Jugged Hare?*?Scotch Haggis?* Seven--Years' Catsup

Harlan Ellison delete54?*?Cafe Ellison Diabolique

Nora Ephron delete55?*?Mashed Potatoes

William Faulkner delete56?*?Curing Hams Shoulders Bacon?*?Hot Toddy

Erna Fergusson delete57?*?Bunuelos 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 delete62?*?French Toast?*?Walnut Cake

Zelda Fitzgerald delete62?*?Breakfast

Benjamin Franklin delete62?*?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 boeuf grillees)?*?A Cheap and Good Soup?*?Mince Pie (Recette d'un pate hache)?*?Orange Shrub?*?Oyster Sauce for Boiled Turkey (Sauce d'huitres pour un dindon bouilli)?*?Puff Paste (Pate feuilletee)?*?Rice Pudding Baked (Pour faire un pudding de riz cuit au pour)?*?Roast Pig (Pour rotir un cochon de lait)?*?Sauce for Boiled Ducks or Rabbits (Sauce pour des canards ou des lapins bouillis)

Jessie Benton Fremont delete65?*?Ham Bones

Horace Howard Furness delete66?*?Cream Cheese

Erle Stanley Gardner delete66?*?Case of the Caretaker's Cat Cocktail

Charlotte Perkins Gilman delete67?*?Synthetic Quince

Allen Ginsberg delete67?*?Cold Summer Borscht

Grace Greenwood delete68?*?Prune Pudding

Sarah Josepha Hale delete68?*?Chicken Pie?*?Puff Paste?*?Pumpkin Pie?*?Roast Beef?*?Roasted Goose?*?Roasted Pork?*?Roasted Turkey?*?Stuffed Loin of Mutton

Gail Hamilton delete71?*?Beaten Biscuit?*?Blackberry Jam Cake?*?Brown Bread Cakes?*?Soft Gingerbread

Marion Harland delete72?*?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 delete83?*?Charlotte

Russe?*?Consumme Imperial (Consomme a l'Imperiale)?*?Potatoes Souf?ed (Pommes de terre souf?es)?*?Sweetbreads, Parisian Style (Ris de veau a la Parisienne)?*?Italian Salad (Salade a l'Italienne)

Nathaniel Hawthorne delete90?*?Corned Beef

Lafcadio Hearn delete91?*?Boston Brown Bread?*?Bouille--Abaisse?* Calves' Feet Jelly?*?Country Fried Chicken?*?Cray?sh Bisque?* Gelatine Snow Pudding?*?Gumbo of Okra or Filee?*?Graham Muf?ns for Dyspeptics?*?Jambalaya of Fowls and Rice?*?Mint Juleps * Pudding *?Rich Wedding Cake or Black Cake?*?Tomato Catsup?* Tomato Soup with Vegetables

Lillian Hellman delete95?*?Pot Roast

Ernest Hemingway delete95?*?Bloody Mary?*?Chop Suey?*?Daiquiri?* Fried Trout?*?Picadillo

John Hersey delete98?*?Sliced Steak Sandwich

Isabella Beecher Hooker delete98?*?Soup Regency?*?Sponge Cake?*?Veal Croquettes

Robinson Jeffers delete99?*?For a Poet's Palate

Thomas Jefferson delete99?*?Apple Toddy?*?Ice Cream?*?Persimmon Beer

Ronald Johnson delete101?*?Green Chile Sauce?*?Huevos Rancheros?*?Mexican Summer Soup

Helen Keller delete102?*?Golden Gate Salad

Jack Kerouac delete102?*?Green Pea Soup?*?Pate de Porc Gras

Caroline Kirkland delete103?*?Bread

Ted Kooser delete104?*?How to Make Rhubarb Wine

Ring Lardner delete105?*?Dry Martini

Harper Lee delete105?*?Crackling Bread

Ursula K. Le Guin delete105?*?Crab Nebula?*?Liriv Metadi or Valley Succotash?*?Primitive Chocolate Mousse

Elmore Leonard delete107?*?Elmore's Southron Breakfast Treats

Aldo Leopold delete107?*?Deer Steaks

Eliza Leslie delete108?*?Beefsteak (Broiled)?*?Beefsteak (Fried)?*?Cat?sh 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 delete115?*?Boudin Blanc (White

Buffalo Sausage)

Olive Logan delete116?*?Veal Cutlets in Papillottes -(Curl--papers)

Jack and Charmian London delete116?*?Corned Beef and Cabbage?*?Hawaiian Salad?*?Italian Spaghetti?*?Roast Duck

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow delete118?*?Veal Cutlets with Tomato Sauce?*?Vegetable Soup

Anita Loos delete119?*?Kitten's Tongue

James Russell Lowell delete119?*?Eleanor Makes Macaroons

Charles Fletcher Lummis delete120?*?Atole de Pina (Pineapple Gruel)?*?Cajeta de Camote y Pina?*?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 a la the Beautiful Mulatto)?*?Quesadillas de Prisa -(Hurry--up Cheese Cakes)?*?Stuffed Potatoes (Peru and Bolivia)

John D. MacDonald delete125?*?Ceviche de Caracol?*?Meyer's Superior Cocktail Dip?*?Tolbert's Chili for One Hundred

Mary Peabody Mann delete126?*?Pandowdy?*?Pigeon Soup?*?Scalloped Oysters?*?Sponge Cake

Bobbie Ann Mason delete128?*?Boiled Custard

Mary McCarthy delete128?*?Meat Loaf

Herman Melville delete129?*?Clam Chowder

H. L. Mencken delete130?*?Jump Stiddy

S. Weir Mitchell delete130?*?Milk?*?Raw Soup?*?Tea

Vladimir Nabokov delete131?*?Eggs a la Nabocoque

Lorine Niedecker delete132?*?Bread Pudding?*?Chicken Loaf?*?Corn and Cheese Fondue?*?Jello Salad?*?Swedish Meatballs

Catherine Owen delete134?*?American Walnut Catsup?*?Cigarettes a la Reine?*?Compote of Pigeons?*?Cutlets Chaudfroid a la Russe?*?Genoa Cake?*?Mock Haggis

Walker Percy delete137?*?Cud'n Walker's Uncle Will's Favorite Mint Julep Receipt

Katherine Anne Porter delete137?*?Genuine Mole Poblana

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings delete138?*?Alligator--Tail Steak?*?Blackbird Pie?*?Crab a la Newburg?*?Okra a la Cross Creek?*?Wild Duck

Mary Roberts Rinehart delete141?*?Baked Tomatoes

Kenneth Roberts delete142?*?Beans?*?Hot Buttered Rum?*?Stewed Coot

Theodore Roosevelt delete143?*?Mint Julep-Kentucky Style?*?Spice Cake

Dori Sanders delete145?*?Easy Peach Cobbler

Saturday Club of Boston delete146?*?Parker House Rolls

Benjamin Shillaber delete147?*?Boston Baked Bean?*?Cucumber Catsup

Lydia Sigourney delete147?*?Apples with Cream?*?Beef Soup?*?Calves' Feet Jelly?*?Cordials?*?Raisin Pudding

Leslie Marmon Silko delete150?*?Bacardi Golden Rum Cake

Upton Sinclair delete151?*?Apples

Gary Snyder delete151?*?How to Make Stew in the Picante Desert-Recipe for Locke & Drum

William Stafford delete152?*?Gormeh Salzee (Persian Lamb and Parsley Stew)

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas delete153?*?Bass for Picasso?*?Chowder Alice B. Toklas and Pate a Beignets?*?Gougere, a Burgundian Pastry?*?Haschich Fudge

John Steinbeck delete156?*?Mysterious Striped Bass?*?Old Fashioned Slaw

Harriet Beecher Stowe delete157?*?Bread and Fruit Pudding

Gene -Stratton--Porter delete158?*?Miner's Lettuce Salad

Luci Tapahonso delete158?*?Naneeskaadi (Indian Bread or Tortillas)

Ida Tarbell delete159?*?How to Mix a Salad

Bayard Taylor delete159?*?Gothic Punch

Bayard Taylor-Dinner at Delmonico's delete159?*?Bigarade Sauce (Sauce a la bigarade)?*?Lima Beans, Thickened Maitre d'Hotel (Haricots ?ageolets, -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 boeuf au madere, demi--glace)?*?Tomatoes Stuffed with Fresh Mushrooms (Tomates farcies aux champignons frais)?*?Young America Sherbet (Sorbet jeune Amerique)

Albert Payson Terhune delete164?*?Sunnybank Guava Salad

Octave Thanet delete165?*?Christmas Plum Pudding?*?Rich Dark Pudding?*?Salmi of Prairie Chicken (Grouse)

Celia Thaxter delete166?*?Graham

Mark Twain delete167?*?Ash Cake?*?German Coffee?*?New English Pie?*?Whiskey and Bitters

Mark Twain-Dinner at Delmonico's delete168?*?Baltimore Terrapin (Terrapin a la Baltimore)?*?Coffee?*?Consomme a la Souveraine?*?Cucumbers?*?Fried Hominy and Currant Jelly?*?Green Turtle Soup?*?Mushrooms on Toast with Cream?*?

Mushrooms Sautes a la Creme?*?Oysters?*?Perigordine Timbales?*?Potatoes English Style, Persillade Balls (Pommes a l'Anglaise, en boules persillade)?*?Quail Roasted, Plain?*?Red Head Duck, Roasted (Canards sauvages a tete rouge rotis)?*?Saddle of Lamb, Sauce Colbert?*?Salad: Celery Mayonnaise?*?Stuffed Tomatoes

Carl Van Vechten delete177?*?Garlic Ice Cream (a dressing for salad)?*?Viennese Cheese Pancakes

Metta Victor delete178?*?Green Tomato Pickles?*?Head Cheese?*?Oyster Catsup?*?Tomato Chowder

Gerald Vizenor delete179?*?Banquet Francais

Sam Ward delete180?*?Grouse, Roasted a la Sam Ward?*?Ham?*?Sam Ward Hashed Filet of Beef?*?Verses for the Kitchen

Robert Penn Warren delete182?*?Insidious Punch

Booker T. Washington delete182?*?Pommes de Terre Sautees (Sauteed Potato)?*?Roast Turkey with Sauce Diable

George Washington delete184?*?Small Beer

Otono Watanna delete186?*?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 delete189?*?Punch

Eudora Welty delete189?*?Barbeque Sauce?*?Beaten Biscuit?*?Cat?sh *?Fish Court Bouillon?*?Jellied Apples?*?Lye Hominy?*?Mint Julep?*?Okra Gumbo?*?Seafood Gumbo?*?Spanish Rice?*?Stuffed Eggs

Walt Whitman delete192?*?Coffee Cake?*?Doughnuts

A. D. T. Whitney delete194?*?Brown Bread?*?One--Two--Three--Four Cookies

Kate Douglas Wiggin delete195?*?Large Family Bread?*?Novelty Cake?*?Substitute Washington

Tennessee Williams delete196?*?Grits

Owen Wister delete197?*?Lady Baltimore Cake

E. L. Youmans delete197?*?Chetney of Chicken?*?Curry of Chicken

Notes

Further Reading

Index of Recipes