Recipes older than Confederation: Lessons from a 160-year-old cookbook

A recipe book that is older than Confederation still has a few things to teach the modern audience. Catharine Parr Traill's The Female Emigrant's Guide, first published in 1855, is a dense and witty collection of guidelines on how to make bush tea cakes, flavour black squirrel, and survive in the Upper Canada's backwoods.