Early American Cookery, or, Ye Gentlewoman's Housewifery : Containing Scarce, Curious, and Valuable Receipts For making ready all sorts of Viands ; A Repository of Useful Knowledge Adapted to meet the wants of Good Wives and Tender Mothers ; also Sundry Salutory Remedies of Sovereign and Approved Efficacy and Choice Secrets on the Improvement of Female Beauty / compiled from old and reliable sources by Margaret Huntington Hooker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooker, Margaret Huntington, 1868-1936.

Contributor:

Duncan, John E., 1914-2004, writer of article.

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Ye gentlewoman's housewifery

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, American.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xviii, 227 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Early American cookery

Ye gentlewoman's housewifery

Place of Publication:

Scotia, N.Y. : Americana Review, 1981.

Contents:

Of soups

Of sauces

Of fish

Rules to be observed in roasting meat, poultry, and game

Of made dishes

Of bread, buns, and breakfast cakes

Of milk, butter, cheese, and eggs

Of the kitchen garden

All sorts of pastry

Of puddings

Creams, custards, and codlings

Of all sorts of cakes

Confects for routs and balls

Preserves, conserves, and syrups

Of pickling

Of beverages

On the improvement of female beauty

Approved secrets in physicke and chirurgery

Palatable dishes for the indisposed

Of sundry other things.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Ye gentlewoman's housewifery. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1896.

Cover design by Gretchen Bradley.

Contains "A Woman of Good Taste" (pages v-x) by John E. Duncan.

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 is "Second Printing, 1988".

ISBN:

0914166212

9780914166214

OCLC:

11621321