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Aunt Priscilla in the kitchen; a collection of winter-time recipes, seasonable menus and suggestions for afternoon teas and special holiday parties, by Aunt Priscilla, herself.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 477
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LIBRA - Blank Collection TX715 .P96 1929 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purcell, Eleanor, 1885-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American.
- Menus.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages illustrations 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Aunt Priscilla's Recipes
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md., Published by Aunt Priscilla Publishing Co. 1929.
- Contents:
- Christmas at Miss Sallie's
- Christmas and holiday dinners
- Breakfasts for Christmas and the holidays
- Christmas teas
- Party menus for New Year's Eve
- Valentine's Dinner
- Washington's birthday dinner party
- Washington's birthday tea
- Washington's birthday luncheon
- Soups
- Fish
- Shell fish
- Poultry
- Game
- Eggs
- Meats
- Vegetables
- Salads
- Sauces and dressings
- Cheese dishes
- Bread
- Griddle cakes
- Sandwich fillings
- Pies and pastry
- Cakes
- Icings and fillings
- Cookies
- Desserts
- Ice cream
- Beverages
- Candy.
- Notes:
- "Aunt Priscilla" is the pseudonym of Eleanor Purcell who used the image of the Mammy archetype to create a daily food column in the Baltimore Sun called 'Aunt Priscilla's Recipes'. It was written in an exaggerated slave dialect ("Christmas dese days ain't what it uster be when I was young.").
- "Winter" printed on spine.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy pages 119-120 disbound and mended with tape.
- OCLC:
- 2506093
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