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4-6Fact Finders: Exploring History Through Food series.
This straightforward series describes the challenges of finding and cooking food in the past. Eight recipes--of varying degrees of difficulty--for typical Civil War and frontier foods (e.g., hardtack in Civil War, rice pudding in Pioneer Farm) are presented. Also included are kitchen-safety and cooking-equipment tips, a metric conversion chart, food and archival photographs, a map, and illustrations. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Fact Finders: Exploring History Through Food titles: Civil War Cooking and Pioneer Farm Cooking.