Belgian Relief cook book.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belgian Relief Committee (Reading, Pa.), issuing body.

Commission for Relief in Belgium, signer.

Belgium. Consulat général (New York, N.Y.)., signer.

Reading Eagle Co. (Reading, Pa.), printer.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community cookbooks--Pennsylvania--Reading--20th century.

Community cookbooks.

Disaster relief--Belgium--20th century.

Disaster relief.

Cooking.

Pennsylvania--Reading.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

299 pages ; 17 x 26 cm

Edition:

[Variant edition?]

Manufacture:

Reading, Pa. : Printed by Reading Eagle Co.

Place of Publication:

Reading, Pa. : Belgian Relief Committee, 1915.

Contents:

Family Secrets: Soups, Pressed Cold Meats; Other Dishes, Entrees, Etc.; Hot Breads; A Few Good Sauces from Berks County; Ice Creams; Ices; Cream Desserts; Other Cold Desserts; Boiled Puddings; Pies; Crullers; Bread; Sweetened Breads; Cakes; Little Christmas Cakes; Little Drop Cakes; Little Gem Cakes; Candies.

Notes:

Cover title.

"Copyright Applied for August 1915"--front cover verso.

Recipes are attributed with the signature of each author.

Recipes are printed on recto only; versos feature inspiring quotes from the Mayor of Philadelphia, Bishop of Pennsylvania, notable authors and well-known persons.

Quarter bound black cloth; two-ring binder; black, yellow, and red paper boards (representing the Belgian flag) with the Belgian royal coat of arms.

Local Notes:

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 has page 3 placed before page 1.

Kislak copy has lower half of letter with ms. annotations on verso and bill from Stephen Fox Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce laid in.

OCLC:

1298897242