The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts, respectfully dedicated to the friends and patrons of the Detroit Home of the Friendless.
Detroit: E.B. Smith, 1873. Octavo ( x cm.), [6], 5-137 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of the home. FIRST EDITION of Detroit’s first cookbook. A second edition was published in 1878. In the early days of the Civil War, Rev. George Duffield, Minister of the First Presbyterian Church, located at the corner of State and Farm Streets in Detroit, convened a meeting of the women of the church. He called.....