The Kitchen; or, Every-day Cookery, Containing Many Useful Practical Directions, Recipes, etc. with Numerous Wood Engravings Showing How to Carve, and the Proper Mode of Sending Dishes to Table. A Companion Volume to Rand, McNally & Co.'s Pocket Encyclopedia. [Everyday].
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1885. Duodecimo (14.25 x 11 cm), 104, [2] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. More than three hundred short recipes, with a stark emphasis on meat, including game, and how to serve it. The Kitchen was foremost an advertising vehicle for Rand, McNally, showing off to those who kept books in their homes the utilitarian pleasures of modern engraving and electrotypography, available at an affordable price.....