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The Improved Edition of The Perfect Cook: A Receipt Book, Containing Many Choice and Carefully Tested Receipts of Practical Value to Every Housekeeper. Compiled and Sold by the Ladies of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Evansville, Ind
by [Indiana, Evansville]; Ladies of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
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- 1885
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Alfred, Maine, USA
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$600.00
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Evansville, Ind: Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1885. Evansville, Ind.: [The Church; Printed by] Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1885. [St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Evansville, Ind.); Ladies of the Church]. Octavo (21.5 x 14.75 cm.), 81 pages. Illustrated head- and tailpieces. Advertisements. Index. Cover title: The Perfect Cook. ~ Evident second edition (by inference). An early church cookbook offered… Read more about this item Item Price
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Edibilia: A Cook Book of Valuable Receipts. Published by the Ladies of Christ Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
by [Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal) (Indianapolis, Ind.); Ladies of the Church]
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- 1873
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Alfred, Maine, USA
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$400.00
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Indianapolis, Indiana: Indianapolis Journal Company, Printers, 1873. Octavo (22 x 14 cm.), 64 pages. Advertisements. Evident FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest recipe collections associated with the Hoosier State, and the first church cookbook known to have been published in Indianapolis. With one hundred sixty recipes, most of them attributed (at least with initials), including: Gumbo Soup (made with young… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dame Durden Cook Book. Compiled by the Ladies of the Church of the Reconciliation, Utica, N.Y.
by [Ladies of the Church of the Reconciliation (Utica, N.Y.)]
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- 1884
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Alfred, Maine, USA
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$500.00
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Utica, N.Y.: Converse & Co., Job Printers, 38 Arcade, 1884. Octavo (20.8 x 13.7 cm.), 49, [3] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A slim but very enjoyable community cookbook, issued by a woman's church group from Utica, in Central New York State. The recipes, in narrative form, are often but not always attributed. Most pleasing is the array of typefaces… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Economical Cook Book: a practical guide for housekeepers in the preparation of every day meals, containing more than one thousand domestic recipes, mostly tested by personal experience, with suggestions for meals, lists of meats and vegetables in season, etc.
by [Saleman's dummy & finished book]; Paul, Sara T.
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- 1905
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Alfred, Maine, USA
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$250.00
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[Chicago, Ill.]; Philadelphia: John C. Winston; Standard Publishing Company, 1905. Two works [the complete book:] small octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), vi, 338 pages. Illustrated with [8] leaves of plates. Index. [WITH the salesman's dummy:] small octavo (19.2 x 12.8 cm.), specimen pages with various pagination and ruled pages for recording subscribers' names at end. ~ FIRST EDITION under… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Cook's Own Book. An American Family Cook Book ; Containing more than twenty-five hundred receipts, for cooking every kind of meat, fish, and fowl, and making of soups, gravies, pastry, preserves and essences: together with a complete system of confectionery. Miss Leslie's Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, the Art of Carving, etc., etc. By A Boston Housekeeper
by A Boston Housekeeper [Lee, Mrs. N.K.M]
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- 1864
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Alfred, Maine, USA
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$450.00
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New York; Boston: James Miller, Publisher, 779 Broadway; [copyright H.M. Francis, 1864. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.), xlviii, 300, 37 pages. Printed in two columns. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and five tipped-in plates. Engraved line drawings throughout the text of the carving section. FIRST EDITION, thirteenth printing (after Cagle). Originally published by Munroe & Francis in 1832 under… Read more about this item Item Price
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