THE COOK'S OWN BOOK. AN AMERICAN FAMILY COOK BOOK;; Containing more than twenty-five hundred receipts, for cooking every kind of meat, fish, and fowl, and making of soups, gravies, pastry, preserves and essences: together with a complete system of confectionery, Miss Leslie's seventy-five receipts for pastry, cakes, and sweetmeats, the art of carving, etc., etc.
NY: James Miller, 1875. 8vo, pp. 300, plus 37. Chromolithograph frontis and 7 other illustrations. Engravings showing right and wrong way to carve, different cuts of meat. Original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine decoration. Cover bumped at corners, little worn at edges,backstrip sunned, chipped, nicked and repasted. Interior tight..... More
