Request for 1857 ajiaco recipe

[Gerald Cohen]

  I'd be grateful if Barry would share the 1857 recipe for ajiaco.

---Gerald Cohen


At 12:17 AM -0600 1/6/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>NUEVO MANUAL
>DEL
>COCINERO
>CUBANO Y ESPANOL,
>
>CON UN TRATADO ESCOJIDO
>DE DULCERIA, PASTELERIA, BOTELLERIA,
>AL ESTILO DE CUBA.
>
>INDESPENSABLE PARA APRENDER A COMPONER DE COMER CON
>LA MAYOR PERFECCION Y ECONOMIA, Y NECESARIO A TODAS
>LAS CLASES DE LA SOCIEDAD Y EN PARTICULAR A LOS
>GASTRONOMOS, MADRES DE FAMILIA, PONDISTAS, &c.
>
>DIVIDO EN TRES PARTES
>
>POR
>J. P. LEGRAN
>
>HABANA--1857.
>Imprenta de la Sociedad de Operarios, Aguila numero 146.
>
>    A gem.
>    The NYPL has this, but it's almost nowhere else.  It's the
>earliest Cuban cookbook I can find.
>    "Ajiaco" and "Ropa Vieja" (Old Clothes), two dishes that should
>have made it into English dictionaries a long time ago, are here.
>
>    I'll type up the lengthy index--probably in several parts--so
>it's searchable on the web.  Let me know if anyone wants the whole
>recipe.