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265 “No more knowledge is necessary” Benjamin Rush, Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806), 279.
265 peak production came in 1860 Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 266.
265 Alexander Hamilton Rush, Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical, 280.
266 “by persons who refuse” Ibid., 286.
266 “pleasant and patriotic” Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 19.
266 “sugar made at home” Ibid.
266 “enough maple sugar to last all the year” Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953), 127.
266 Jefferson’s trees Eagleston and Hasner, The Maple Syrup Book, 27.
267 “the scattered situation of the trees” Rush, Essays Literary, Moral, and Philosophical, 278.
267 Laura Ingalls Wilder remembered Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, 126.
267 the only shelter Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 48-50.
268 Boil until thick Details on tests, ibid., 58-59.
268 To Make Maple Beer Carter, The Frugal Housewife, 210.
269 5.5 percent of the world’s total Eagleston and Hasner, The Maple Syrup Book, 33.
272 “Why should men delay” Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 76.
275 “The most precious of all gifts” Twain, Autobiography, 494.
275 chasing driftwood beside a river Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 143.
275 “a flash and a vanish” Mark Twain, “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” in Collected Tales, 1891-1910, 826.
276 “‘Now here are these two unaccountable’” Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, vol. 3 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912), 1511.
276 Maple-Sugar Sauce Corson, Practical American Cookery, 464.
278 “a wild delicacy that no other sweet can match” John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1886), 258.
278 a golden age Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 8.
278 “stubborn oaks sweat” Virgil, The Eclogues, Eclogue 4, http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/eclogue.4.iv.html.
279 “always worked herself down” Twain, Autobiography, 489.
279 “Seventy-four years old” Ibid., 488.
EPILOGUE
281 I can brine the chicken Recipes described in epilogue are from Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock, The Gift of Southern Cooking (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
282 the torture of a monotonous song Twain, Roughing It, 209.
282 “no land with an unvarying climate” Ibid., 386.
282 “cover the trees and by their weight” Twain, Autobiography, 19.
284 “much used by country people” De Voe, The Market Assistant, 341.
285 “The number of dishes is sufficient” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 291.
287 1805 edition The first edition was written in England in 1747; the 1805 edition included many specifically American recipes.
287 April was the time for young geese Glasse, The Art of Cookery, 3-13.
288 “pass the sliced meet around” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 291.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
IN ADDITION TO THE following and the sources cited in the notes, two magnificent online resources were indispensable while writing this book: the Mark Twain Project Online (www.marktwainproject.org), an extensive—and constantly growing—archive of Twain’s correspondence and work, and also the wonderful collection of vintage cookbooks made available by the Feeding America Project at the Michigan State University Library (http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/index.html).
Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Manuscript Letters Now in the Mark Twain Papers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
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