Search Results: the calendar of cakes fillings and by hiller elizabeth o

Joliet, Illinois : The P. F. Volland Company Edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some shelf wear; portion of the base of the rear of the wrapper is missing as well as a tiny portion of the front; overall a nice used first edition! Color illustrated gold wrapper with black lettering. Very very rare and hard-to-find title! A different cake or cookie recipe for every day of the year! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! No publishing date. "No attempt has been made in compiling this calendar, to cover the entire category of cakes, for the variety is limitless. But a different cake for each day in the year, should be sufficient for any and all occasions........." ---- from the Foreword.. First Edition / First Printing. Stapled Soft Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Joliet: P.F. Volland & Co., n.d. ca. . Revised edition. Wrappers. Fine. Silkscreened. Narrow quarto, picorial gold covers tied w. white silk cord; in fine publisher's box Recipes of 365 different cakes and cookies, as well as frostings and fillings. Arguably the most notable recipe here is for the Lincoln and Douglas Cake, "the recipes is an heirloom, left to me by my aunt, Miss Caroline Oyler of Freeport, Ill., who baked and elaborately decorated the cake and served it to these distinguished gentlemen on the veranda of my grandfather's home, at the conclusion of their famous debate in Freeport. It is a large recipe suitable for a bride's cake and was used for that purpose more than fifty years ago - Foreword." Hiller was the founder and Principal of the Chicago Domestic Science School, and a noted writer and lecturer on culinary subject.