This is, of course, not exactly Americana, as it is a cooking ms. from 18th Century England. That said, it is full of things which Americans were eating about up to the Civil War, numerous small cakes we were starting to call cookies: cymbols, jumbles, rocks (still a few of those being made in the US), as well as pickles and a few meat dishes. One interesting Americanism already useful in England was "kidney beans" pickled, showing that Western Hemisphere beans were popular enough in E...