Five women cook up some local history in 1899
by amy
While testing the recipes in Ann Arbor Cooks you can savor an extra slice of Ann Arbor history: Several recipes, particularly within the 1899 Ann Arbor Cookbook, bear the names of prominent Ann Arbor citizens. On your next visit to Allmendinger Park you can take along Miss E. C. Allmendinger's Quince Tents; or you can enjoy Mrs. W. B. Hinsdale's Cream Puffs at the Broadway Park near the former intersection of 19th century Indian trails mentioned in her husband's book, The Indians of Washtenaw County. Mrs. Junius Beal probably whipped up her Marguerites at her home on the corner of 5th Avenue and William St., now the site of the Downtown library. Mrs. Samuel W. Beakes, whose husband wrote The Past and Present of Washtenaw County, baked Excellent Cocoanut Cookies, and Mrs. Frank Kelsey actually makes Prune Pudding sound...ok.
The names Allmendinger, Hinsdale, Beal, Beakes and Kelsey are frequently cited within the text and image collections of The Ann Arbor Observer: Then & Now, Ann Arbor Founders, The Downtown Ann Arbor Historical Street Exhibit and The Making of Ann Arbor.
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we should have an ann arbor
we should have an ann arbor pot luck--I have dibs on quince tents; are there any squirrel recipes?
The link to quince tents did
The link to quince tents did not work, alas.
cool
cool
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Quince tents link works now -
Quince tents link works now - but I'm still left wondering, what is a "tent" and how is it edible? (and where can I find a quince??)
interesting.
interesting.
That is really interesting!
That is really interesting!
love food
love food
Theses old recipes intrigue
Theses old recipes intrigue me. I will try some this summer and report back.
TB