Review; The Woman Suffrage Cookbook: The 1886 Classic by Hattie A. Burr
Description from Goodreads
The Woman Suffrage Cookbook was the first of several fundraising cookbooks published in support of the movement behind the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Edited and compiled by Hattie A. Burr, it features recipes from prominent suffragists as well as from women eminent in their fields: teachers, lecturers, physicians, ministers, and authors.
Contributors include Mary C. Ames, a successful journalist, who provided a recipe for lobster soup; Alice B. Stockham, the fifth woman in the United States to become a licensed doctor, who sent a recipe for Coraline Cake; and suffragists Mary A. Livermore and Lucy Stone, both of whom supplied complicated recipes for yeast. Other recipes such as Rebel Soup and Mother's Election Cake added a rebellious tone to the compilation. This historic volume offers context for the changing roles of women of the era, who were fighting for their rights outside of the home while still tending to their domestic duties. Women's studies students, women of all generations with an interest in history, and food writers and cooks will appreciate this vintage cookbook.
My Thoughts on the Book
The Woman Suffrage Cookbook is like a little piece of history, considering it was originally created as a fundraiser for the suffragist movement. It's an interesting book for those who are into historical cookbooks as well as women's history. Some of the recipes were pretty neat too, even if they were really short and didn't always have that much instructions.
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