Cook Book of the Northwest

Cook Book of the Northwest

Scarce regional fundraiser charity cookbook by the Ladies of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Keokuk, Iowa. Recipes include regional and classic favorites with chapters on meat, fish, oysters, bread, puddings, pickles, salads and catsups, vegetables, eggs, pies, cakes, creams, ices, preserves, jellies, and a miscellaneous chapter at end on household hints such as how to clean marble slabs, how to kill grass in side walks, cleaing a black woolen dress, cure for felon, cure for chilblains, and many more. Recipes attributed to contributors. Local sponsor merchant ads. Handwritten recipe for fruit cake stapled into inside front. Flyleaf is loose. Three blank pages at center of book filled with prose written by previous owner. A few child's pencil scribbles here and there. A yellowed newspaper clipping on "Cure for Small-pox" pasted to inside back cover.

OVERALL = B- Good Minus Condition COVER: Loose flyleaf. Hinges ok. Minor shelf wear. Corner(s) bumped. Scuffed. DUST JACKET: None, as issued. INTERIOR: Used, with soiled pages throughout. pub date: 1875 publisher: R.B. Ogden pages: 156 plus ads format: Hardcover sku: BCB780344 $125.00 Expected back in stock soon, click here to be notified by email when this product becomes available.