Helps for Young Housekeepers. Prepared for the Fair Given by “The Bethany Band of Merry Workers,” Monday and Tuesday evenings, Dec. 20 and 21, 1875, [and] Revised for the Benefit of the Church Building Fund, January 1879 by Mrs. Helen W. Pond.
San Francisco: [The Church; Printed by] Bacon & Company Printers, 1879. Small octavo (17 x 11.75 cm.), [ii], 82 pages. Advertisements. Stated revised (thus second) edition. A fair-related fundraiser that was subsequently revised as a church cookbook; one of the earliest but less widely known among California cookbooks. With approximately two hundred brief recipes, unattributed, but tested by the compiler “in my own home.” A preponderance of baked-good entries not.....