[Rarebooks] FS: NEW AMERICAN COOKERY, 1805, the Second American Cookbook

[Charles Agvent]

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[COOKERY]. NEW AMERICAN COOKERY, OR FEMALE COMPANION. CONTAINING FULL 
AND AMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR ROASTING, BROILING, STEWING, HASHING, BOILING, 
PRESERVING, PICKLING, POTTING, FRICASEES, SOUPS, PUFF-PASTES, PUDDINGS, 
CUSTARDS, PIES, TARTS, & C. ALSO, THE MAKING OF WINES AND CHEESE. 
PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO THE AMERICAN MODE OF COOKING. New York: D. D. 
Smith, 1805. First Edition. Twentyfourmo (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") bound in 
original full sheep leather with gilt rules on the spine; 180 pages. The 
second American cookbook, preceded by Amelia Simmons's much better known 
AMERICAN COOKERY, printed four times before the publication of this 
volume, which is much scarcer than the Simmons. It is also distinguished 
as the first American cookbook published in New York. In addition to the 
recipes for broiling, hashing, preserving, pickling, fricasees, soups, 
puddings, pies, etc., there are 20 pages devoted to the making of wine, 
quite early for an American book. Bitting page 581: "There are some 
unusual recipes, one for spinach, a forerunner for the spinach of today, 
cooking with no added water, garnished with poached eggs, and unusual 
for that period; oranges cut in quarters." Lowenstein 36 cites another 
New York imprint of T. B. Jansen in the same year. Lacking the 
endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, 
unsophisticated copy in original binding of a scarce and important book. 
(#017831)        $17,500.00

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