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Colonial Burlington cookery : a book of receipts April 1770 / Polly Burling ; [recipes compiled and transcribed, with an introduction] by Sue Huesken and Mercy Ingraham.
LIBRA TX703 .B87 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burling, Polly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American--New Jersey--Burlington County.
- Cooking, American.
- Quaker cooking.
- New Jersey--Burlington County.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 50 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Riverside, NJ : RanMer Pub., [2008]
- Summary:
- The thirteen recipes in this book of colonial New Jersey "receipts" predate the first published American cookbook by twenty-five years. The recipes are presented with an historical backdrop of life and times in colonial Burlington. The authors believe that "Polly's" full married name may have been Mary Burling Smith. She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Notes:
- Photographs of pages from the receipt book have exact transcriptions on the facing page; instructions with modern measures and directions are provided at the back of the book.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-48).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780964837812
- 0964837811
- OCLC:
- 226372238
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