WHAT SHALL WE EAT?; A manual for housekeepers. Comprising a bill of fare for breakfast, dinner, and tea, for every day in the year. With an appendix, containing recipes for pickles and sauces
1871 · NY
by (Anonymous)
NY: Putnam, 1871. 8vo, pp. 134. Original blind-stamped rust cloth with gilt titles and black decorations. Edges rubbed, corners and ends of spine little worn and bumped, Rear cover has some water spots, one of which has bled through to the endpapers, but not affecting the text. Interior tight and clean, with slight creasing on some leaves. Bitting 618. Brown 2369a. Cagle 808. Wheaton Kelly 6445. All cite 1868 edition. A scarce title. An unusually constructed cookbook, with menus, ingredients and recipes combined. The preface states, "The design of this manual is to suggest to ladies, without the trouble of thinking, what is seasonable for the table, each day in the week, and how it shall be cooked. (Inventory #: 44792)