Tested Receipts. Contributed by Members of the Froebel Society of 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 for Breakfast. Sorting out what An Italian Dish is will take some doing: it may be have been inspired by a tomato risotto, though the recipe calls for far too little moisture (pilafs are dryer, perhaps, but not especially Italian). The mystery ought to be solved, as we are told that "it is fit for a king." ~ The Froebel Academy, a school founded upon the early-childhood educational philosophy of Freidrich Fröbel (1782-1852 – the originator of the idea of Kindergarten – opened in September 1883, at 176-178 Brooklyn Avenue. The Society was established the following April by teachers and mothers of children in attendance. The present copy of Tested Receipts was owned by Mrs. Chauncey E. (Mary Thompson Frothingham) Low of Brooklyn Heights, a philanthropist and arts patron; articles of clothing she donated to the Brooklyn Museum can still be seen at the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute, where the relevant collection is now housed. Several text corrections in pencil; owner's surname in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise fine, in blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. Rare. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown or Cagle].