Colonial Cooking for a Modern Day Palate

Colonial cooking and colonial-era recipes for families, children, and entertaining. Enjoy a variety of soups, stews, sides, main dishes, desserts, drinks, and punches, enjoyed by colonial settlers at home, in taverns, and while entertaining.

Colonial cooking and colonial-era recipes for families, children, and entertaining. Enjoy a variety of soups, stews, sides, main dishes, desserts, drinks, and punches, enjoyed by colonial settlers at home, in taverns, and while entertaining. Recipes include items used by the settlers and colonists but with slight adaptations to make the recipes easier to make and to enjoy. Dishes are delicious and hearty. Enjoy eating like our foremothers and forefathers 250 years ago, and drinking like them too! The book also contains many recipes for colonial-era alcohol drinks and punches.

Heather Meadows lives in in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her only son, Wesley. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Religion from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and works for The George Washington Foundation and Washington Heritage Museums. She loves history, museums, reenacting, and cooking.