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From an English oven; cakes, buns and breads of county tradition, with legends and festivities associated with their origins and use. / Dorothy Gladys Spicer.
LIBRA Rare TX765 .S68 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spicer, Dorothy Gladys, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bread.
- Cake.
- Pastry.
- Cooking, English.
- Cooking, English--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Cookbooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 123 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Women's Press, [1948]
- Contents:
- Preface
- Feast day cakes: For New Year's Day; For Twelfth Day; For Shrove Tuesday; From Ash Wednesday to Easter; For Harvest; For All Soul's Eve; For Guy Fawkes' Day
- From Christmas Eve to New Year's Day
- Special occasion cakes: For Birthdays; For Wakes, Fairs and Revels; For Weddings
- Every-day cakes
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- "Copyrighted, 1948, by Gladys Spicer Fraser."
- "Designed by Edwin B. Kolsby."
- "We wish to thank the personnel of the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library for their assistance in find the prints adapted for decorations in this book ..."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-117) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy has label of Jan Longone Wine & Food Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Spicer, Dorothy Gladys. From an English oven.
- OCLC:
- 877209
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