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American Cookery, 1796 / by Amelia Simmons ; introduction and updated recipes by Iris Ihde Frey.
LIBRA - Rare TX703 .S5 1984 Klavans copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Amelia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking.
- United States.
- recipes.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cooking.
- United States.
- Genre:
- cookbooks.
- Cookbooks
- Early works
- Cookbooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Klavans, Nancy (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, [2], 155, [3] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- American cookery, or The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake, adapted to this country, and all grades of life
- Place of Publication:
- Green Farms, Conn. : The Silverleaf Press, 1984.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- American Cookery 1796. Preface
- Part One. Directions for Catering and Procuring. Flesh; Fish; Poultry; Hares, Leveret & Rabbits; Butter, Cheese & Eggs; Roots & Vegetables; Beans; Peas; Herbs; Fruits
- Part Two. Cooking Receipts. Viands; Pies; Puddings; Pastes; Custards; Tarts; Syllabubs; Cakes; Rusk Preserves; Miscellaneous
- Sampler of Updated Recipes.
- Notes:
- Updated edition of: American cookery. 1796.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Klavans Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Nancy Klavans in 2016.
- Klavans copy has gold sticker on cover "America's First Cookbook".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Simmons, Amelia. American cookery, 1796.
- ISBN:
- 0915591006
- 9780915591008
- 0915591014
- 9780915591015
- OCLC:
- 10301948
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