Domestic Cookery, useful receipts, and hints to young housekeepers. Third edition.
Baltimore: Cushings and Bailey, 1851. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), viii, 310 pages. Styled “Third Edition”; the third edition, first printing (two additional printings were issued that year. Originally published in 1845, the book found its final form in this third edition. An early Quaker cookbook, joining works in the same period by Mrs. Widdifield, and Mrs. Nicholson. Food historian William Woys Weaver notes that this book does not wear.....