The Berkeley Cook Book. Four Hundred Practical Receipts Used by Berkeley Women. Compiled by the Women’s Association of the First Congregational Church
by [First Congregational Church (Berkeley, Calif.); Women’s Association]
Berkeley, California: [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company, 1903. Octavo (23.25 x 14 cm.), [iv], 171, [i] pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition (but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle, author statement, and publisher). A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins, Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke, Mussel Bordelaise, Clam Patties, Spanish Meat Pie, Coffee Fruit Cake, Lemon Cocoanut Cake, Cookies with Sherry, Monterey Pudding, Gooseberry Pudding, Pineapple... Read More
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The Twentieth Century Cook Book. By California Caterers and Teachers of Cookery in Connection with the Ladies of the First Presbyterian Church
by [First Presbyterian Church (Salinas, Calif.); Ladies of the Church]
Salinas, California: [The Church; Printed by] E. H. Green, Printer, 1902. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 382, [x] pages. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Advertisements. Cover title: 20th Century Cook Book. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook with approximately four hundred recipes, from a region famous for its root and vine vegetables, its farm produce, as well as its long-established Mexican and Asian communities. Among items of note: a pureed Artichoke Soup; a flaming Rum Omelet; and... Read More
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The Priscilla Cook Book. Published by the Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The proceeds to be contributed to the fund for the new church building
by [First Congregational Church (Berkeley, Calif.); Priscilla Club; Mrs. J.F. Furtado (edited by)]
[Berkeley, California: James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers, 1923. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), [iv], 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section (not used). Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921, by our editor, Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect, with a list of officers appears on page [ii]. There are no local advertisements included, but there... Read More
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How We Cook in Colorado: Choice Recipes. Contributed by the ladies of the First Baptist Church, Denver
by [First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)]
Denver, Co: [Denver Printing & Publishing Company], 1907. Octavo (19 x 13.7 cm.), 122, [6], pages. Index. Advertisements. Blank pages for handwritten recipes interspersed. Printed photographic image of the church, with an exhortation to patronize the advertisers has been pasted to the free front end paper. Evident FIRST EDITION. An early community cookbook from Colorado, issued by the First Baptist Church. The church's founding was just six years after that of the City of Denver. The presence of recipes... Read More
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![The Pentucket Housewife: A Manual for Housekeepers and Collection of Recipes. Contributed by The Ladies of the First Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass. [Edited by C. W. Train.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/950/710/1693710950.0.l.jpg)
The Pentucket Housewife: A Manual for Housekeepers and Collection of Recipes. Contributed by The Ladies of the First Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass. [Edited by C. W. Train.]
by [First Baptist Church (Haverhill, Mass.); Ladies of the Church; Caroline Matilda Whittier Train]
Haverhill, Mass: [The Church; Printed by] Steam Press of Chase Bros, 1883. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [viii], 136, [xvii] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Decorated chapter head- and tailpieces. Table of contents. List of corrections. Editor inferred from copyright statement on title-page verso. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION; while copyrighted the prior year, the author's preface is dated December 1882. A church cookbook likely issued in concert with the dedication of a new meetinghouse. With approximately five hundred recipes, many... Read More
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Ye Olde Newbury Cook Book. Published in the Interests of the Ladies' Benevolent Society
by [First Church (Newbury, Mass.). Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Oldtown Parish]
[Newburyport]: Newburyport Commercial Press, 1927. Small octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 58, [i] pages. Advertisements interspersed. Title from cover. Additional title (page [1]): Tested, Tried, and True. "This book is issued for the benefit of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Oldtown Parish, First Church, Newbury"–page [1]. ~ FIRST EDITION. A church collection with nearly two hundred recipes, the majority attributed. The family of the pastor, Charles Sumner Holton (1866-1939), was not reticent: Parson Holton's Baked Beans; Cusque à... Read More
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The Up-To-Date Cook Book: A Collection of Tested Recipes. Compiled by The Ladies' Benefit Society of the Baptist Church, North Bellingham, Massachusetts
by [First Baptist Church (North Bellingham, Mass.); Ladies' Benefit Society]
West Medway, Mass: H. A. Bullard, Book and Job Printer, 1908. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), 84 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). "Index" is actually a table of contents. Photographic image of the church reproduced on the front panel of the wrappers. Evident FIRST EDITION. A charitable church cookbook from Norfolk County, to the southwest of Boston and some thirty kilometers north of Providence. With three hundred fifty recipes, the majority attributed; including: Chestnut Soup, Asparagus Cream Soup, Clam Chowder,... Read More
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Peoples' Receipt Book and Church Directory 1879. Compiled by the Ladies of the First M. E. Church
by [First Methodist Church (Somerville, Mass.); Ladies of the Church]
Somerville; Boston: The Church; Printed by F. J. Barnard], 1879. Octavo (23.75 x 15 cm.), [54] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Title from cover. Author from prefatory note "With Our Readers" on page [3]. Printer from advertisement on page [54]. Alternate title within prefatory note: Peoples' Receipt Book and Business Directory. Evident FIRST EDITION. A charitable cookbook that foregrounds local business advertisements (rather than recipes) as a "directory" – a misleading usage, however, as there is no alphabetical or thematic... Read More
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The Southampton Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational Church, Southampton, Mass
by [First Congregational Church (Southampton, Mass.). Ladies' Aid Society]
Westfield, Mass: Press of The Valley Echo, 1900. Octavo (20 x 13.25 cm), 92 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. An unreported church cookbook with three hundred recipes, the majority attributed. Fully of its era, emphasizing baked goods, sweets, and puddings - with five separate approaches to Walnut Cake, and five renditions also of Lemon Pie. Settlers from Northampton, in what is now the central western county of Hampshire, moved to Newtown-on-the Manhan - today called Southampton - in 1730,... Read More
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The Handbook for Housekeepers: Practical and Well Tested Receipts. Compiled by The Ladies' Aid Society of the Newton M. E. Church
by [First Methodist Episcopal Church (Newton, Mass.). Ladies' Aid Society]
Boston: B. Wilkins & Co., Printers, 1889. Octavo (19.5 x 13.25 cm.), 64, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Title on cover: Housekeeper's Hand Book. Index is actually a table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A church recipe collection with two hundred brief entries, all attributed. A straightforward chapter of standards called Fancy Dishes claims center stage: Charlotte Russe, Strawberry Blanc-Mange, Orange Pudding, Lemon Creams, Jellied Peaches. Shortly after the organization of the first Methodist Episcopal congregation in what is now Newton Upper... Read More
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The Ladies National Cook Book. Presented by The Ladies Aid Society, East Raynham, Mass
by [First Baptist Church (Raynham, Mass.); Ladies Aid Society]
[Raynham, Mass.]: [The Church], 1900. Stapled booklet, (18.75 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements throughout. Title from cover. Identification of church surmised from photo-reproduction on cover. Date of publication proposed from internal evidence. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Tentatively identified community recipe collection of modest proportions, with some two hundred brief entries solicited from acquaintances in both Bristol County and around the nation. Recipes include: Maryland Beat Biscuits (from Baltimore), Baked Brown Bread (from Ogden), Stuffed Potatoes (from Po'keepsie), Pineapple... Read More
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The Saratoga Favorite, published by the Young Women's Mission Circle of the First Baptist Church, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 1892
by [First Baptist Church (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.); Young Women's Mission Circle]
Saratoga Springs: Cozzens & Waterbury, Book and Job Print, 1892. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), 171 pages. Advertisements. All edges red. "Index" is a detailed table of contents. Later printing; a revised and enlarged edition of Our Home Favorite, published in 1882. First published under this title in 1885. A community church cookbook with attributed recipes, arranged into chapters with blanks at the end of each section for recipes to be added. Lacking free front endpaper, some discoloration to... Read More
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On the Rocks. Printed on the ice of White Bear Lake, Minnesota
by [Fisher, M.F.K.; Gaylord Schanilec (illustrator)]
White Bear Lake, Minnesota: The Ampersand Club, 1997. Oblong 24mo. in wrappers sewn on cord (11 x 13 cm.), [10] pages. Illustrated with wood-engraved title-page vignette by Gaylord Schanilec. FIRST EDITION, limited to approximately 120 copies, this one of 80 copies in gray wrappers, paper label on upper wrapper panel. This little privately printed booklet explains itself in the preface. "The untitled and anonymously-compiled word-list was discovered in a small notebook in the library of M.F.K. Fisher. To the first... Read More
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Choice Recipes. How to Make the Finest Bread and the Most Delicious Cakes, Pastry, Etc., by the Use of Fleischmann & Co.’s Compressed Yeast
by [Fleischmann & Co.]
New York: Fleischmann & Co, 1902. Duodecimo-sized stapled booklet, 52 pages. Printed throughout in brown ink. Second, expanded edition originally issued in 1893. A product cookbook, distributed “with the compliments of Fleischmann’s & Co., original manufacturers, introducers and manufacturers of compressed yeast in the United States and Canada.” Contains more than eighty recipes for breads, buns, cakes and more, all with the product as an ingredient. Fleischmann’s Yeast was founded by Charles Louis Fleischmann in Cincinnati in 1868. Tiny... Read More
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![The People's Cook Book of Practical Receipts for Every-Day Dishes. Compiled and Collected from the most Reliable and Approved Sources [by] Flint & Barker](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/506/062/1597062506.0.l.jpg)
The People's Cook Book of Practical Receipts for Every-Day Dishes. Compiled and Collected from the most Reliable and Approved Sources [by] Flint & Barker
by [Flint & Barker (Worcester, Mass.)]
Worcester, Mass: [The Company]; C. F. Lawrence & Co., Printers, 1885. Small octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 40 pages. Cover title: Do You Keep House? If Not, Why Not? Printer from cover. Illustrated advertisements interspersed. An engaging promotional cookbook for Flint & Barker, a Worcester-based household furnishings supplier. The ninety or so recipes found here are indeed "every-day", although Breeze Pudding and Hickory Nut Macaroons at the very least evoke something of an era. What grabs attention, rather, are... Read More
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Food, Sex and TV. Fast, Easy and Fun
by [Food/Art]; Heinecken, Robert; Suzanne Pastor
Kassel: Fotoforum Kassel, 1983. Oblong octavo (16.5 x 25 cm.), [24] pages. Illustrated in color and black & white. Text in English and in German. Chronology and a bibliography. FIRST EDITION, limited to twelve hundred unnumbered copies. A photographic artist book published on the occasion of the 1983 exhibition of photographic works by the Los Angeles-based Robert Heinecken who took on the subjects of food, sex and tv. The work here was conceptualized and realized by Suzanne Pastor. Included... Read More
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Club Woman's Cook Book. Compiled by The Fortuna Monday Club. Revised edition
by [Fortuna Monday Club (Fortuna, Calif.). Committee in Charge]
Fortuna, California: The Club, 1928. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 139, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Prefatory remarks (title page) signed "Committee in Charge." Second, Revised Edition. A relatively ambitious community endeavor with nearly six hundred brief contributions, the majority attributed, emphasizing sandwiches, salads, casseroles, coffee cakes, and other luncheon specialties. Representative: Apple and Pimento Salad, Baked Cucumbers, Egg Egleston (eggs baked in mashed potato nests), Krummerfort (date and walnut pudding), Peach Cream Cake. Uncharacteristic of the time... Read More
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Blue-Grass and Rhododendron: Out-Doors in Old Kentucky
by Fox, John, Jr.; [Margaret Armstrong (binding designer)]
London; [New York]: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd.; [Trow Directory, Printing, and Binding Company], 1905. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), x, 294 pages. Illustrated with twenty plates with illustrations by F.C. Yohn, H.L. Brown and W.S. Rogers. Decorative publisher's binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Top-edge-gilt. FIRST U.K. EDITION, following the original U.S. publication by Scribners in 1901. Both editions printed by Trow. Twelve stories and sketches, including adventure and sporting tales. Fox was one of the most popular American... Read More
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[Convolute of materials related to the Italian restaurant Lucca, with branches in San Francisco & California]
by [Lucca (Los Angeles & San Francisco)]
[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, 1938. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, “Photographs”, bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca’s decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full front of house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding cakes; two photos making a panoramic view of the kitchen... Read More
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Little Pilgrimages among Bavarian Inns. Being an account of little journeys to the Bavarian highlands and to various quaint inns and hostelries in an out of the ancient towns, together with reminiscences of student and artist life in Munich
by Fraprie, Frank Roy
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1906. Octavo, xii, 337 pages. Illustrated with 32 black and white photographic plates. Maps to endpapers. Title page printed in black and gold. FIRST EDITION. A title in the publisher's Little Pilgrimages series. Evocative travel writing with visits to small inns as the focus, all recorded before the ravages of two world wars. Ownership signature to free front endpaper and to half-title, otherwise fine, in bright publisher's gilt-, black- and burgundy decorated gray... Read More
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The Kentucky Receipt Book
by Frazer, Mary Harris
Louisville, Ky: Press of the Bradley & Gilbert Company, 1903. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 365 pages. “Order of Index” is actually a table of contents. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. An ambitious, literate, and attractive cookbook – self-consciously presented as a kitchen reference – whose range of nearly two thousand recipes defies fair summation. Suggestive only, then: Kentucky Burgoo, Black-Eyed Pea Soup, Spinach Soup, Baked Blue Fish, Lobster Quenelles, Fried Roe, Spindled Oysters, Jellied Daube Beef, Liver with Chestnuts,... Read More
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100 Cocktails: How to make them and what to eat with them. (A laboratory manual of cocktail making with appetizers to offset them)
by Fredericks, Anderson; [Little Blue Book no. 1688]
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1931. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (12.5 x 8.5 cm.), 32 pages. FIRST EDITION; the issue with yellow wrappers, printed in red. Little Blue Book No. 1688. A prohibition-era cocktail book, with recipes made with "non-alcoholic ingredients". Internally a bit age-toned, in keeping with the poor-quality paper generally used by Haldeman-Julius; Wrapper lightly soiled and starting to separate at the spine crease. Still near very good and scarce in this yellow/red issue.
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Tested Receipts. Contributed by Members of the Froebel Society of Brooklyn, N. Y.
by [Froebel Society (Brooklyn, N.Y.)]
Brooklyn: The Society, 1897. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 78 pages. Table of contents. Blank pages appended. FIRST EDITION. Approximately two hundred forty recipes, most of them attributed, if only with initials. Varied interests on the part of the Froebel mothers are in evidence. Sandhurst Pie would appear to be akin to British pub-style meat pies covered with mashed potatoes. An earthenware coffee biggin (the first "French" drip-brewing method) is proposed as the best way to make Coffee... Read More
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The Housewife's Practical Candy Maker. Comprising receipts for the finest home-made candies, especially adapted for manufacture in the American kitchen
by Frye, G.V.
Chicago, New York, San Francisco: Bedford, Clarke & Co, 1889. Octavo (17.5 x 14 cm.), 169, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. A book of practical recipes for confectioners, geared towards trade and not public use. By the author of Frye's Practical Candy Maker, a slimmer volume issued by the author in Chicago in 1884. The seventy-odd extra pages consist, however, largely of lined blanks titled "Remarks". An early owner has added a single, handwritten recipe, "Fudge" and added the entry... Read More
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Cooking With an Accent
by Gaylord, Isabella
Falls Village, Conn: Herb Grower Press, 1949. Octavo (20.3 x 14 cm.), [14)] 116, [1] pages. Illustrated. Blanks at rear for additional recipes. FIRST EDITION. The first book published by the The Herb Grower Press, a project of Gertrude and Philip Foster, founders of The Herb Grower Magazine, which started two years before this publication. Some age-toning, Dark green patterned cloth, gilt-titled on the front board. In the yellow dust jacket, titled and decorated in red and green. Small... Read More
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