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(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Connecticut) A.G. Morehouse, ed. The Lucile Cook Book

$150.00

279 + [3] ad pp. Illus. with ads for local businesses. Gilt-lettered yellow cloth. First Edition. [New Haven, CT: A.G. Morehouse, [1892].

An uncommon 19th c. Connecticut community cookbook, with recipes for all sorts of local fare: sandpipers, green corn pudding, baked haunch of venison, roast peacock (!), pigeon pie, ragout of squirrels, prairie chicken, nasturtium pickles, preserved martinoes, etc. 

Rubbing to extremities, a couple small spots to cloth; owner's name to front pastedown, otherwise very good.

 

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