Illus. with vignettes. Green cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879.
An uncommon book by Mrs. Parloa, Boston's premiere cooking instructor in the late 19th century. Lessons in bread and yeast, coffee, tea and chocolate, condiments, spices and flavors, vegetables, fruit, fish, etc. There are also lessons in housework, the body, etc.
Owner's manuscript recipes from the period accompany contemporary recipe clippings mounted to front endpapers.
Chipping to spine head, rubbing to foot, else very good.
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