GOOD-LIVING. A Practical Cookery-Book for Town and County. by Van Buren, Sara

New York:: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, [1908].. Third edition, with additional material.. publisher's cloth.. Cloth tanned with some light spotting and use; tight and sound.. 8vo,.

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G. P. Putnams. Used - Good. Good condition. 3rd edition, with additional material. Household Edition. (American cooking) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. (USA) 3rd edition. There is an owner's faint name stamp to the front fly, there are some stains to the cover boards (not bad), some faint spots to page edges, some wear to spine edges and edges of cover, consistent with the books age, pages generally clean, Good copy; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Putty coloured boards with titles in brown, pattenred end papers, xiv, 643pp, index, decorative chapter headers, no illus. per se. This book is copyright 1890; this the third edition 1908 with a new chapter and index. The author writes her preface from Antwerp, Belgium. This is a tremnsoud collection of recipes (perhaps 1000) drawn from French culinary traditions. The recipes are presented in the style of older cookery books , quite brief without the ingredients lists and presumes some fore-knowledge of cookery methods. The original preface includes a list of sources consulted from Mrs. Beeton, Mrs. Rorer and Miss Parloa to Careme and Soyer. Additionally the… Read More

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New York-London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1908. Octavo (23.4 x 16 cm.), x, 580 pages. Third Edition, with additional material; in the first edition of the work (c. 1890) the author's name is stated as 'Sara Van Buren Brugiere". A decidedly upper class cookbook, with more than thirteen hundred recipes drawn from around the world. The preface includes a list of sources consulted which range from Mrs. Beeton, Mrs. Rorer and Miss Parloa to Careme and Soyer. The author describes the cuisine included as selected from "the best and most popular dishes of the Eastern States [...]; of Philadelphia [...]; from Baltimore and the South, many of the excellent dishes so well prepared by the Negro cooks; and from further South still, we have the many delicious receipts furnished by the Creole school of cookery". In rubbed and slightly soiled white oil cloth. Some very slight foxing to edges, otherwise fine. [OCLC locates twelve copies; Bitting, page 64; not in Cagle].