The Shaker Cookbook: Not By Bread Alone Southern Cookbooks Fine Cooking

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Illustrations of Savannah throughout book

and art of pasta-making span over five centuries

The Shaker Cookbook: Not By Bread Alone Southern Cookbooks Fine CookingTo the Shakers, preparing food was ever a joyous task. Making dumplings or baking a pie was done with all the zest for living that they put into building a new meeting house. Shaker cookery has been famous since the early Federal Period, when the "kitchen sisters," who dedicated their hands to work and their hearts to God, devised the essential American way of feeding the families of their large communities. The Shakers were the first to can food