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Young Cook's Assistant; Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions by A Clergyman's Daughter - 1848

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Young Cook's Assistant; Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions by A Clergyman's Daughter - 1848

Young Cook's Assistant; Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions

by A Clergyman's Daughter

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Edinburgh: John Johnstone. Good/No Jacket - as issued. 1848. Eighth Thousand. Hardback. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 160 pages plus publishers catalogue. Adapted to the use of families in the middle rank of life. numerous members of the Dunbar family of Aberdeen have inscribed their names to the front pastedown and free front endpaper. Preface is dated 1843, British Library record a copy dated 1851. .
  • Bookseller Books & Bygones GB (GB)
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  • Edition Eighth Thousand
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  • Publisher John Johnstone
  • Place of Publication Edinburgh
  • Date Published 1848
  • Keywords Cookery, Cooking, Food, Recipes, History

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Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches

Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches

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Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1882. Book. Good. Hardback. Sixtieth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 528 pages plus catalogue of 30 pages. Dark red cloth with embossed decorations and gilt title to spine. Parsnips need to be cooked for 2 - 3 hours? Axford page 119 quotes first edition as 1830..
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Family Cookery Book, The

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Coventry: Merridew & Son, 1812. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 372 pages. Improved system of domestic economy; containing above eight hundred valuable receipts, many of which are entirely original; the whole forming a most useful economical companion. Rebound with three quarter leather and marbled boards..
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French Provincial Cooking

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London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Book. Illus. by Renny, Juliet. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 493 pages. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, pictorial design to upper board in red, red top-stain. With the rare dust jacket which has been professionally restored. Pages 247-250 have been re-stitched by a professional bookbinder. First edition, first impression of the author's most influential work, some light staining to bottom edge. David (1913-1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living abroad during the early 1940s, and began writing a food column for Harper's Bazaar in 1949, to her amazement the only place you could buy olive oil in England at that time was the chemist!.
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Apici Caeli De Re Coquinaria Libri Decem.

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Heidelberg: Heidelbergae, 1867. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 202 pages. Novem codicum ope adiutus auxit, restituit, emendavit et correxit, variarum lectionum parte potissima ornavit, strictim et interim explanavit. Top edge gilt..
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London: John Ebers and Co., 1829. Book. Good. Hardback. Tenth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 485 pages. Rebound in green cloth with original title label to spine. A system of fashionable and economical cookery adapted to the use of English families. Tenth edition, corrected and enlarged, with an appendix of observations on the meals of the day - new method of giving fashionable suppers at routs and soirees, as practised by the author when with Lord Sefton. Frontispiece portrait of author..
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Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches

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Coventry: Merridew & Son, 1812. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 372 pages. Improved system of domestic economy; containing above eight hundred valuable receipts, many of which are entirely original; the whole forming a most useful economical companion. Rebound with three quarter leather and marbled boards..
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London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Book. Illus. by Renny, Juliet. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 493 pages. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, pictorial design to upper board in red, red top-stain. With the rare dust jacket which has been professionally restored. Pages 247-250 have been re-stitched by a professional bookbinder. First edition, first impression of the author's most influential work, some light staining to bottom edge. David (1913-1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living abroad during the early 1940s, and began writing a food column for Harper's Bazaar in 1949, to her amazement the only place you could buy olive oil in England at that time was the chemist!.
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Heidelberg: Heidelbergae, 1867. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 202 pages. Novem codicum ope adiutus auxit, restituit, emendavit et correxit, variarum lectionum parte potissima ornavit, strictim et interim explanavit. Top edge gilt..
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The Young Cook's Assistant: Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions (1848)
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The Young Cook's Assistant: Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions (1848)

by A Clergymans Daughter

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Young Cook's Assistant; Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions

Young Cook's Assistant; Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions

by A Clergyman's Daughter

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John Johnstone, 1851. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1851. No Edition Stated. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with faded lettering. New spine added. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pencil marks and drawings to endpapers and some other pages. Few pages torn with repair. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Heavy soiling, staining and marking to boards.
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Young Cook's Assistant: Being a Selection of Economical Receipts and Directions, adapted to the use of families in the middle rank of Life

by A Clergyman's Daughter

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Fanny and Johnnie Cradock Cookery Programme No 1: The Key to Simple Cooking with Poultry
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Paulton, Bristol, England: Purnell & Sons. 1970. Staple-bound magazine. Very Good. Color photo-illustrated thick paper covers. Lavishly illustrated. Cover and internal pages are tightly secured by three clean staples. Interior is unmarked. Cover shows shelf and reading wear. Not from a library. 24 pages. Part 1 of a weekly cookery course by two of the earliest TV chefs. Contents: The Key to Simple Cooking with Poultry; How to Make Perfect Featherweight Swiss Roll; A Simple Souffle; We take the sting out of Meringues; Crunchy Pork Crackling and Proper Roast Potatoes; Non-sink Cherry Cake.
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GREEN EGGS AND HAM COOKBOOK: Recipes Inspired by Dr. Seuss
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GREEN EGGS AND HAM COOKBOOK: Recipes Inspired by Dr. Seuss

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SUNKIST RECIPES PACKET
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SUNKIST RECIPES PACKET

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Los Angeles: California Fruit Growers Exchange, 1938. Very good. A promotional packet of recipes using Sunkist lemons, the trademark of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. SUNKIST LEMONS - BRING OUT THE FLAVOR! [32p.] Stapled wraps. Very good. Staples oxidized, name and date on first page. Booklet with recipes for appetizers, beverages, desserts, fish, meat, garnishes, pies, salads and dressings, and vegetables. Black & yellow illustrations. (7-1/4"x5") 5 STAR LEMON RECIPES: THE BEST SERVINGS OF THE SEASON BY FAMOUS HOME ECONOMISTS. Very good. Name on front. Leaflet with seven recipes using Sunkist lemons. Single sheet, double-sided, folded into 3 panels. Blue text and illustrations. (Folded - 7-1/2"x4-1/4"; unfolded - 7-1/2"x12-1/2") SUNKIST PRESENTS THE YEAR'S BEST LEMON RECIPES FOR 1938. Very good. Name on last panel. Leaflet with eleven recipes using Sunkist lemons for entrees, vegetables, and desserts. Single sheet, double-sided, folded into 6 panels. Green text and illustrations. (Folded -… Read More
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Breakfast Dinner & Tea

Breakfast Dinner & Tea

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New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1869 Chipped top and bottom of the spine, badly bumped corners, mesh binding still tight, Couple of news paper clippings inside the front board, one attached to the board and one newspaper clipping attached to the inside back board, 351 pages. Each page has an inch margin around it. Classically, Poetically, and Practically. Contains numerous curoius dishes and feasts of all times and all countries besides three hundred modern receipts.
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MARLENE SOROSKY'S YEAR-ROUND HOLIDAY COOKBOOK
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The International Cook Book
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The International Cook Book

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page & Co. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1907. Hardcover. Sm 4to., 1059 pp., Manuscript recipes and margin notes .
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Mirro Cook Book
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Mirro Cook Book: Approved Recipes from Mirro Test Kitchen

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284 Pages. This classic old cook book's exterior has worn areas on all for corners and at the top and base edges of the spine as well in one place on the rear cover's bottom edge. The interior pages, though yellowed a bit, have no visible extraneous markings on them until the back inside cover where a past book owner wrote some extra recipes. The is also a small piece missing from the bottom of the title pageThis book will be carefully wrapped up, padded, and then boxed and shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and will come with our absolute appreciation for your order.
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GOURMET'S MENU COOKBOOK

GOURMET'S MENU COOKBOOK

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NY: Gourmet Books, Inc., 1978. FINE condition. HARDCOVER. 1978. SEVENTH PRINTING. AS NEW, bound in spinach green leatherette with decorative gold titles. Square and tight, UNREAD, no dust jacket as issued. Previous owner's name 'Light Fingers Lil' in small type gilt. Light rub to upper edge front, else FINE. 'A collection of epicurean menus and recipes.' Line drawings and color photographs throughout. Oversize, octavo/8vo. 648pp plus Special Acknowledgements and Index. Quite a nice gift.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued.
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Sandwich Secrets. Compliments of the U.S. Bakery, Baker's of Franz Butter-nut Bread
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Sandwich Secrets. Compliments of the U.S. Bakery, Baker's of Franz Butter-nut Bread

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Portland, Oregon: U.S. Bakery, 1930. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrapper (16 x 24 cm.), 16 pages. Illustrations (some color). Title from cover. A product cookbook for this Pacific Northwest commercial bakery. Includes an introduction titled "Concerning the Earl of Sandwich" and sixty-six recipes for sandwiches and canapés (here spelled "canapis"). Some age-toning and wear to corners of illustrated wrapper. Very good. [OCLC locates two copies].
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Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking
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Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking

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Meredith Corporation, 1973-74. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket as Issued. All volumes have clean, unmarked text. No owner attribution. Volumes 1-5, 1973 stated second printing, special edition; Volumes 6-8, 10-15 and 17-19 1974 stated second printing, special edition; and Volumes 9, 16 and 20 stated first printing, special edition. The Complete Encyclopedia Set has over 2,500 pages, over 4,200 recipes, over 1,500 photographs (many in full color), hundreds of "how-to" illustrations. A classic, rare example of Better Homes and Gardens' most complete cookbooks. Scarce, Out of print. Large multi-volume set will require extra shipping.
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