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The Practical Cook Book; containing upwards of one thousand receipts: consisting of directions for selecting, preparing and cooking all kinds by meats, fish, poultry and game, soups, broths, vegetables and salads. Also, for the making all kinds of plain and fancy breads, pastries, puddings, cakes, creams, ices, jellies, preserves, marmalades, etc., etc., etc., together with various miscellaneous receipts, and numerous preparations for invalids. By Mrs. Bliss.

LIBRA - Blank Collection TX715 .B645 1855
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English
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Penn Provenance:
  • Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
Physical Description:
[2], 303 pages ; 19 cm
Other Title:
Mrs. Bliss' practical cook book
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855,
Contents:
  • Stock for Soups and Gravies
  • Sauces for Meats
  • Soups
  • Fish
  • Butchers' Meats
  • Venison
  • Beef
  • Veal
  • Mutton and Lamb
  • Pork
  • Poultry, Game, and Eggs
  • Vegetables, Salads, and Garnishes
  • Pickles and Catsups
  • Breads, Flour Biscuits, and Flour Cakes
  • Puddings
  • Pastes and Pies
  • Sweet Cakes
  • Ornaments for Cakes
  • Fritters and Pancakes
  • Tart Fruit Sauces, and Sauces for Puddings, Pies, and Fritters
  • Cream Ices and Water Ices
  • Blanc Mange, Creams, Charlotte-Russe, Flummery, Syllabubs, Curds and Whey
  • Marmalades, Jams, Jellies and Preserves
  • Miscellaneous
  • Preparations for Invalids.
Notes:
  • Embossed cloth cover with spine lettered in gilt.
  • Spine title: Mrs. Bliss' practical cook book.
  • 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 signature of Mrs. Mary Hayes, Springfield on front free endpaper.
  • Kislak copy has spine partially detached and back cover completely detached.
OCLC:
1354237079

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