The Woman's World Cook Book, by Lily Haxworth Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Lily Haxworth.

Contributor:

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking.

Menus.

Entertaining.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

468 pages illustrations (some color), portrait 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Co. [1931]

Contents:

Part One. Planning, Marketing and Care of Foods (26 pages)

Part Two. Balanced Menus (44 pages) (Note: Recipes given for 323 menus)

Part Three. Proven Diets (30 pages)

Part Four. Mechanics of Cookery (34 pages) (Sure Rules for Success)

Part Five. Mechanics of Cookery (38 pages) (The Tools of the Profession)

Part Six. Timely Talks on Vital Subjects (18 pages)

Part Seven. Entertaining through Good Cookery (30 pages) (The Social Affair and Its Service)

Part Eight. Tested Recipes (220 pages: over 1,200 recipes covering every menu).

Notes:

Cover has cream cloth boards with black imprint featuring floral pattern and silhouette. Note states "Book is covered with Leatherode, a waterproof fabric, and then varnished. Clean with moist cloth only. To avoid injuring the embossed cover design, use nothing but water".

Includes index.

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 "Copyright, 1931, Manning Publishing Company".

Kislak copy has cloth spine wanting.

Other Format:

Online version: Wallace, Lily Haxworth. Woman's world cook book.

OCLC:

6405800