I selected Canadian cuisine and a recipe for Rice Blancmange. This recipe was from the Dominion home cookbook, published by Adam Miller . It was written by “A Thorough Housewife”, and is part of “The Canadian National Series of Reading Books”, and was originally published in 1868.

The year 2017 marked Canada’s 150^th birthday. As diversity is a defining characteristic of the population, it follows then, that the cuisine is equally diverse. Today’s Canadian food scene is shaped by immigrants that came here to attain a better quality of life. I wanted to get a glimpse into Canadian cuisine at the time of confederation, and the influence immigration had – and still continues to have - on it. I chose this recipe because I love puddings, and thought that it would be a great learning experience to research in greater detail one of my favourite foods!

This exhibit was created by Cassy Highland (Year 3, Applied Human Nutrition)