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emma_in_dreamHattie Burr, The Woman Suffrage Cook Book,1886.
So in 1886 the suffrage movement in the US pulled together a fundraising recipe book – The Woman Suffrage Cook Book. Hattie Burr edited it and compiled a list of recipes provided by various members of her network. I am not an expert on American suffragism but I could immediately see Lucy Stone and one of the Stantons.
The recipes themselves are bafflingly oblique. Take this recipe for bread. 'Two cups cooed oatmeal, or rice, salt to taste, two tablespoons sugar, one cup sweet milk, one third cup yeast, flour to make it stiff.'
They clearly assume a huge bundle of information that I don’t have. They just list a chunk of ingredients and give no instructions on how to combine them or how to cook them. Perhaps the point is to highlight that despite being suffragettes they are ‘feminine’ enough to just know these things and be naturally houseproud and wifely.
The book ends with a list of quotes from prominent 19th century Americans in support of the vote. I am reminded of a description of 19th century novel that a friend gave me – it was suffragette porn. In between each round of activity would be a discussion about how women should have the vote. This cook book falls into the same genre of obscure efforts to propagandize through every possible means.
So in 1886 the suffrage movement in the US pulled together a fundraising recipe book – The Woman Suffrage Cook Book. Hattie Burr edited it and compiled a list of recipes provided by various members of her network. I am not an expert on American suffragism but I could immediately see Lucy Stone and one of the Stantons.
The recipes themselves are bafflingly oblique. Take this recipe for bread. 'Two cups cooed oatmeal, or rice, salt to taste, two tablespoons sugar, one cup sweet milk, one third cup yeast, flour to make it stiff.'
They clearly assume a huge bundle of information that I don’t have. They just list a chunk of ingredients and give no instructions on how to combine them or how to cook them. Perhaps the point is to highlight that despite being suffragettes they are ‘feminine’ enough to just know these things and be naturally houseproud and wifely.
The book ends with a list of quotes from prominent 19th century Americans in support of the vote. I am reminded of a description of 19th century novel that a friend gave me – it was suffragette porn. In between each round of activity would be a discussion about how women should have the vote. This cook book falls into the same genre of obscure efforts to propagandize through every possible means.
