Good - Lancaster Central Market Cookbook

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The advice and strategies contained in these materials may not be suitable for your situation. Consult with a professional where appropriate. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable for any commercial damages or loss of profit, including but not limited to special, consequential, or incidental damages. Contents How This Book
Came to Be I love Lancaster Central Market! It is the place to go for fresh vegetables, fruits, cheese, baked goods, seafood, and meats. And good chance youll be buying from the farmer or baker or cheesemaker who grew or produced what youll take home. My first job was working on market.

And now I shop there once or twice nearly every week. I go for the food, but I also go for the people and the atmosphere. Recently I asked standholders why they think Lancaster Central Market has operated for so many years and has such staunchly loyal customers today. The people who shop here and work here are a community, they each said, one by one. As Earl Groff, a second-generation standholder, reflected, Market is not just a place to buy and sell things. Its a place to visit, to share ideas, to talk about weatherand government! Twenty-five years ago, Viv Hunt, another second-generation standholder, began writing down favorite recipes of the food she sold at her stand.

She urged other standholders to do the same. Many did not cook from written recipes. In some cases, they wrote down recipes that until then had been passed along only by watching their mothers and grandmothers prepare them. Other recipes were translated from German to English for the first time. Still other recipes were so familiar and traditional to Lancaster County that standholders werent sure they merited recording. Viv asked us at Good Books to join them in organizing the gathering of the recipes so that the final collection would represent the current flavor of Lancaster Central Market.

We asked standholders to submit three categories of recipes for the new booka food they sell at their stand, or one made with ingredients sold at their stand; a traditional Lancaster County dish, or one from their own tradition, that they particularly enjoy; and then a personal favorite. In so doing we hoped to capture the regional rootings of the Market, as well as its current multi-cultural flavor. That spread was in that book, as it is every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday on Lancaster Central Market. Now, 25 years later, the original Central Market Cookbook is out of print. But standholdersand booksellers across the countryheard frequent requests for that book with those choice recipes! This 25 th Anniversary edition of the Lancaster Central Market Cookbook contains the best of the recipes from the original book, plus dozens of new recipes from todays standholders. This Cookbook represents the work of many: first, the standholders who wrote recipes amid tending their truck farms, baking breads and pastries, butchering, curing, and making salads.

Many of the standholders also tested recipes. That step brought questions from some of the best cookswhy test recipes when we know they work? It was not their quality or tastiness that we doubted; it was that we wondered if these people, who cook with as little effort as they breathe, would record all the steps needed for the uninitiated! The Lancaster Central Market Cookbook: 25th Anniversary Edition has been a cooperative venture from its very beginning. Now that its complete, we invite you to join us in Lancaster Central Markets tradition of good eating. Phyllis Good The Wonder of
Lancaster Central Market Lancaster Central Market may be an historic site, but it is a vitally active place of commerce and friendship every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday. Todays market building, built in 1889, is old. Older still is the habit of going to market in Lancaster.

When Andrew and James Hamilton planned the town site in 1730, they provided three lots for a market place. The 120-foot square lay at the northwest corner of King and Queen Streets adjoining the Centre Square. When Lancaster was incorporated as a borough in 1742, its charter from George II of England established the market tradition: And we do further grant for us, our heirs and successors... to have, hold and keep... two markets in each week. Already in 1744, a visitor in the town remarked, They have a good market in this town, well filled with provisions of all kinds and prodigiously cheap.

A few decades later in 1776, a British officer paroled in Lancaster remarked, Food is very plentiful. The markets abound with most excellent cyder and provisions. The citys interest in the market has protected its integrity and the pristine quality of the food and goods sold there. It was so from the beginning. The City Council ruled that no chapmen (itinerant peddlers) were permitted to sell door-to-door in the city or set up stands except at fairs. Effort was also made to establish high standards of quality for the foodstuffs sold at market: there were rules that concerned the freshness of meat and that stipulated that meat not be inflated with air to make it appear more substantial.

The first Lancaster farmers market was an open-air affair, but by 1757 a market house had been constructed, most likely a rather primitive structure. In 1763, part of the market house was reserved for the storage of three fire engines. In 1795, Lancaster City Hall was built on the grounds of the market. Adjoining the west end of that building, a new market house was constructed in 1798. This was a dual-purpose building consisting of brick pillars and arches surrounding an open market place on the first floor and headquarters for a Masonic lodge on the second floor. The Masons shared in the construction cost of the building.

The new market officially opened on January 30, 1799. There were 24 stalls, 14 of which were occupied by butchers. The yearly rent was three pounds. This building is still standing, but the first floor has been enclosed and is now occupied by a number of shops. The relatively small space in the 1798 building was not adequate for long, and an addition was built on the north side of it in 1815. Supplemental market space was also provided by the curb market stands on adjacent streets.