Potato soup, plumb cake and spruce beer — Maritimes sure had an interesting palate in the 1700 and 1800s.
The Maritimes have a long and unique history of recipes
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 17, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Looking for Maritime recipies isn’t easy. You have to go searching for them. (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick/P155-2153)
When you do a Google search for “chocolate chip cookie recipes,” the search engine lists approximately 186,000,000 results.
Even if you didn’t have internet access, a quick trip to any bookstore or library would give you access to dozens of cookbooks with various takes on the classic chocolate chip cookie recipe.
But while humans have been practising the culinary arts for thousands of years, quick access to recipes is a relatively new phenomenon.
“In Canada, as a whole, recipe books didn’t start being printed until the 1830s,” said Edith Snook, historian and co-author of Early Modern Maritime Recipes: Circulating Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World along with Lyn Bennett.
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Edith Snook is an English professor at UNB and she has a book coming out soon about Maritime Recipes from the 18th century. » Read More
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