Taproots of Tennessee
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Taproots of Tennessee

Historic Sites and Timeless Recipes

  1. 337 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Taproots of Tennessee

Historic Sites and Timeless Recipes

About this book

What was served at President James K. Polk’s White House dinners? What foods graced the table of John Sevier, Tennessee’s First Governor? In Taproots of Tennessee, Lynne Drysdale Patterson answers these questions and more, exploring nearly two centuries of Tennessee foodways. Readers will discover that Tennessee taste encompasses the exquisite, such as President Polk’s French-inspired Croquettes Poulet with Bechamel Sauce and General James Winchester’s spoils-of-the-hunt Roast Goode with Wild Rice and Wild Fox Grape Stuffing, to simpler fair, including Dr. Humphrey Howell Bate’s fried pies and Alex Haley’s boyhood menu of sweet tea and Southern staples.

Patterson takes readers on a historical and culinary tour of the Tennessee Historical Commission’s seventeen state historic sites with a collection of period foods from each site and menus with updated recipes for the twenty-first century food enthusiast. Patterson’s site histories provide readers with a journey through the accounts of Tennessee’s early settlers, their homesteads, cookery, schoolhouses, stage coach stops, and religious life. Her site recipes range from historic offerings, such as peaches from General Daniel Smith’s Rock Castle State Historic Site orchard fashioned into a delectable peach pound cake-potentially shared with neighbors Andrew and Rachel Donelson Jackson-to more modern representations of historic foodways, such as Scottish-influenced Scotch Barley Soup and Scotch Egg likely eaten by Sam Houston.

From homes of Tennessee’s first families to stagecoach stops in the 1830s, from Civil War command posts to rural schoolhouses, foodies and academics alike will delight in this compendium of Southern recipes, served with a generous helping of history.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword, Minoa Uffelman
  3. Preface
  4. 1. Rocky Mount State Historic Site, 1772
  5. 2. Rock Castle State Historic Site, 1784–1791
  6. 3. Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site, 1784
  7. 4. Sam Houston Schoolhouse State Historic Site, 1794
  8. 5. Chester Inn State Historic Site, 1797
  9. 6. Cragfont State Historic Site, 1798-1802
  10. 7. Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1801–1815
  11. 8. Hawthorn Hill State Historic Site, 1805
  12. 9. President James K. Polk Home and Museum State Historic Site, 1816
  13. 10. Sabine Hill State Historic Site, 1818
  14. 11. Carter House State Historic Site, 1830
  15. 12. Wynnewood State Historic Site, 1830
  16. 13. Sparta Rock House State Historic Site, 1835–1839
  17. 14. Ducktown Basin Museum and Burra Burra Copper Mine State Historic Site, 1847–1987
  18. 15. Sam Davis Monument State Historic Site, 1906
  19. 16. Clement Railroad Museum and Hotel Halbrook State Historic Site, 1913
  20. 17. Alex Haley Home Museum and Interpretive Center State Historic Site, 1919
  21. Index of Recipes