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Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving : a treatise containing practical instructions in cooking; in the combination and serving of dishes; and in the fasionable modes of entertaining at breakfast, lunch, and dinner / by Mrs. Mary F. Henderson. Illustrated.
LIBRA - Rare TX715 .H45 1878 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Mary F. (Mary Foote), 1842-1931.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American.
- Dinners and dining.
- Menus.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 376, 8 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1878.
- Contents:
- Setting the table and serving the dinner
- The dinner party
- Cooking as an accomplishment
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Gentlemen's suppers
- Evening parties
- Something about economy
- Directions and explanations
- Cooking utensils
- Bread, and breakfast cakes
- Tea
- Coffee
- Chocolate
- Cocoa
- Soup
- Fish
- Shell-fish
- Sauces
- Beef
- Veal
- Sweet-breads
- Mutton
- Lamb
- Pork
- Poultry
- Geese, ducks, and game
- Vegetables
- Shells, or coquilles
- Potting
- Macaroni
- Eggs
- Salads
- Fritters
- Pastry
- Canning
- Preserves
- Pickles and catchups
- Cheese
- Sweet sauces for puddings
- Puddings and custards
- Bavarian creams
- Desserts of rice
- Wine jellies
- Cake
- Candies
- Ices
- Cookery for the sick
- Some dishes for "baby"
- How to serve fruits
- Beverages
- Suitable combination of dishes
- Serving of wines
- To prepare company dinners.
- Notes:
- " ...[the author] hopes that she has produced a simple and practical book, which will enable a family to live well and in good style, and at the same time, with reasonable economy."--Preface signed M.F. H.,St. Louis, 1876.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertisements: 8 pages at end.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy spine mended with tape.
- Malgieri Collection copy has bookplate and stamp of The Warren Memorial Library, Cumberland Mills Maine.
- OCLC:
- 31337264
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