{"id":3792,"date":"2015-06-28T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:57:49","slug":"250-cookbooks-settlers-recipes-and-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: Settlers’ Recipes and Remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #117:<\/strong> Settlers’ Recipes and Remedies<\/em>, Historic Boulder, Inc., 1978.<\/p>\n

\"Settlers<\/a>“Hiccups are immediately stopped by giving a lump of sugar saturated with wine vinegar.”\u00a0 “For a headache, peel and slice raw potatoes and bind them on the forehead in a cloth that reaches around the head.” “It will be bad weather if carrots grow deeper.”<\/p>\n

Such is the lore of the first settlers in Boulder, Colorado, <\/em>as told\u00a0in this book.<\/p>\n

Settlers’ Recipes and Remedies<\/em> includes small black and white photos of people and serving ware and\u00a0 a store and historic homes in Boulder. There are quite a few recipes \u2013 some basic, some interesting, some odd \u2013 but very few are practical for today’s cooks. No oven temperatures! No cooking times!<\/p>\n

I probably bought this book used in a bookstore in downtown Boulder, probably decades ago. A price of “$3.00” is written in pencil on the first page. I’ve never used this book as a recipe source. I can’t find any information about it online, except that the Denver Public Library has a copy. Historic Boulder has a current website<\/a>, but they don’t mention this book.<\/p>\n

I will cook “Wild Bill Hickock’s Smothered Beefsteak” for this blog. You take a thin steak, smooth a bread stuffing on top, roll it up, and cook it until done. Good basic foodstuff. Then, I will recycle this book.<\/p>\n

\"Beef<\/a>Steak Roll<\/strong><\/a>
\nserves 2<\/em><\/p>\n