Recipes for Passenger Pigeon
- Date Range
- 1883 – 1914
- Title
- Recipes for Passenger Pigeon
- What occurred
- In 1883, Mrs. D.A. Lincoln's cookbook "Boston Cook Book What to do and what not to do in cooking" is published. On pages 262-263 Mrs. Lincoln describes several ways to cook pigeon, most likely passenger pigeon. Obviously, this cookbook did not really contribute to the extinction of the passenger pigeon, but it is interesting to see exactly how this food item was prepared in everyday homes. This cookbook seems targeted to the common cook, not fine establishments, and its recipes were probably employed well before the publishing year of 1883. These recipes illuminate the place passenger pigeon had on the common man’s table as a vital source of food, not just for sport.
- Location
- 2020 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140
- Image Citation
- Lincoln, Mary J[ohnson (Bailey)]. Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book : What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking. Little, Brown, and company, 1907, 1907.
- Student name(s)
- Glen Manglapus