Healthy Distractions: Spring 2020 Finals Week: Cookbooks

Try the first cookbook published in America, American Cookery by Amelia Simmons in 1798. Can you make this gingerbread? "Three pound fugar, half pound butter, quarter of a pound of ginger, one doz. eggs, one glafs rofe water, rub into three pounds, bake 2 hours." (p. 37)

Check our recipes from our Little Cookbooks collection, like Jello, Hershey's and more!