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Amelia Simmons was an American writer noted for publishing the American Cookery. This cookbook is considered an important text that provided insights into the language and culinary practices of former colonists, helping shape American identity. [1] It is considered the first American cookbook published in the United States. [1]
The earliest extant description of what is now often called a cupcake was in 1796, when a recipe for "a light cake to bake in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The earliest extant documentation of the term cupcake itself was in "Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats" in 1828 in Eliza ...
Author Amelia Simmons worked as a domestic in Colonial America and gathered her cookery expertize from first-hand experience." By 1831, American Cookery had long been superseded by other American editions of English cookbooks, but Wilson goes on to say "But Amelia Simmons still holds her place as the mother of American cookery books. And no ...
According to the New England Historical Society, the first recipe for American election cake appeared in 1796 in the first U.S. cookbook, Amelia Simmons’ “American Cookery.” Back then, the ...
Amelia Simmons (in the USA) is the first known source for cakes cooked in cups (1796). However, the term "cupcake" is an American term, and for those of us in other countries who call them fairy cakes, the "cup" is not the determiner of origin.
During the colonial era, elections were celebrated with a drink and a huge celebration cake large enough to feed the entire community, and the recipe as given by Amelia Simmons in 1796 called for butter, sugar, raisins, eggs, wine and spices in enormous quantities. [53]
American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons; A New System of Domestic Cookery (1806) by Maria Eliza Rundell; Le Cuisinier Royal (1817) by André Viard; Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845) by Eliza Acton; El Cocinero Puerto - Riqueño 1859 (author unknown) Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) by Mrs Beeton
Recipes for it are included in many early cookbooks, including Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy (1747) [2] (note that there are recipes for "cheap seed-cake" and "a rich seed-cake, called the nun's cake"), Elizabeth Moxon's English Housewifery Exemplified (1764), Amelia Simmons' American Cookery (1796), Mary Eaton's The ...