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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 fashionable modes of entertaining at breakfast, lunch, and dinner / by Mrs. Mary F. Henderson. Illustrated.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX715 .H498 1877
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Mary F. (Mary Foote), 1842-1931.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking.
- Cooking, American.
- Home economics.
- home economics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 376, [8] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1877.
- 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
- Macroni
- 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 for Company Dinners.
- Notes:
- "The aim of this book is to indicate how to serve dishes, and to entertain company at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as to give cooking receipts."--Preface.
- Publisher's advertisements: [8] pages at end.
- Includes index.
- Green cloth boards lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and front cover.
- 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 inscribed "To 'Lizzie' from 'E. J.' 8/24/77".
- Kislak copy has New Year paper ornament with inscription "Happy New Year! Hope this is not already in your collection -- XXXX Will" laid in
- OCLC:
- 931838338
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