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Mammy Pleasant's cookbook / compiled and edited by Helen Holdredge ; illustrated by James Beauchamp Alexander.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 234
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Holdredge, Helen O'Donnell, compiler, editor.
Contributor:
Alexander, James B. (James Beauchamp), illustrator.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks (University of Pennsylvania)
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cooking, American.
Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904.
Pleasant, Mary Ellen.
Genre:
Cookbooks.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
157, [3] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Treasury of gourmet recipes from Victorian America
Place of Publication:
San Francisco : 101 Productions, [1970]
Contents:
Nantucket cookery
Charlestown
Boston
New Orleans Voodoo
Louisiana plantation
San Francisco bachelor club
Sunday dinner in the country
Gold Rush cooking
River boat fare
River king squatum
Coastal steamer cooking
Missouri plantation
Ricon Hill mansion
Virginia City
Shoo Fly Inn
Tycoon's boarding house table
Mammy's other house
New Year's supper
Exotic desserts
Geneva cottage country cooking
Los Alamos rancho
Mammy's Highland fling
Woman of mystery.
Notes:
"A treasury of gourmet recipes from Victorian America"--Cover.
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
ISBN:
0912238046
9780912238043
OCLC:
125521

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