A Practical Cook Book, Compiled From the Choicest Recipes of Many Good Housewives for St. Aloysius’ Church Fair, May, 1887
Washington, D.C. Rufus H. Darby, Printer & Publisher, 1887. Small octavo (18.25 x 10.5 cm.), 70 pages. Advertisements. Cover title: A Friend in Need. Table of contents. Evident FIRST EDITION. A fair-related charitable cookbook with nearly two hundred recipes, many of them attributed, some quaintly (“An Old Housekeeper”; “An English Cook”). Includes several attributions tying A Practical Cook Book to a community whose memory of the War of Rebellion was.....