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(Native American) Women's Indian Association. The Bethlehem Cook Book

$200.00

Illus. with ads for Bethlehem, PA businesses. Cloth. First Edition. Bethlehem, PA: Times Publishing, 1900.

The Women’s National Indian Association was one of the most significant Native American reform organizations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and sought to advance assimilation (and conversion to Christianity) by altering the traditional roles and habits of Indian women. 

This community cookbook is comprised of recipes contributed by supporters of the association, and includes instructions of making roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, Mother's Waffles, tomato farci, corn fritters, etc. Chewing and wear to upper spine & covers, else fair. Scarce.