Newburg

[James A. Landau]

Mrs. Simon Kander _The "Settlement" Cook Book, Sixth Edition, Containing Many
Recipes used in The "Settlement" Cooking Classes, the Milwuakee Public School
Cooking Cernters, and gather from various other Reliable Sources"  Milwaukee,
Wisconsin: The "Settlement", 601 Ninth Street, Milwaukee, Wis, 1901.

page 95 : "Newburg Sauce for Fish or Lobster"
4 or 5 yolks                   1 cup milk
3 tablespoons sherry      1 cup cream
Salt and pepper to tase
Beat the yolks until very light, add the rest of the ingredients and cook
over boiling water, until thick and smooth, stirring constantly

Page 103 has "Halibut and Shrimp a la Newburg" and page 104 has "Halibut with
Lobster a la Newburg"

As far as I can figure out, the Settlement's mission was to Americanize
Jewish immigrants.  The cookbook, while not interested in keeping Kosher
(neither shrimp nor lobster is Kosher), is full of Yiddish names and recipes
calling for matzoh.

Conclusion: whenever and wherever it started, by 1901 the term "newburg" had
reached immigrant communities in such places as Milwaukee

                - Jim Landau

P.S. While the title page says this is the "Sixth Edition", there is only one
copyright date, namely 1901.  Is 1901 likely to be the copyright date of the
First Edition, with the sixth some time later, or did the editors fail to
list previous copyrights (or even not have bothered to copyright earlier
editions?)

An interesting sociological aside: the editor is "Mrs. Simon Kander assisted
by Mrs. Henry Schoenfeld, Mrs. Nathan Hamburger-Behal, Mrs. Isaac D. Adler"