E.R. Durkee & Co's Practical Cook Book : with nearly three hundred economical, useful and tested recipes

New York: E.R. Durkee & Co, 1885. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.5 x 9.5 cm.), 87 pages. Second Edition, expanded; the original 1875 publication included just two hundred recipes. An advertising booklet for Durkee & Co., "importer and grinder of spices" and maker of Gauntlet Brand products. The short, narrative recipes feature the spices, flavorings, mustards, salad dressing, and more. Internally clean and sound, in decorative wrapper bearing a chromolithograph illustration. Tiny chip at foot of wrapper spine, otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates four copies of this second edition, and seven of the 1875 first edition].