[Rarebooks] FS: THE COOK NOT MAD, OR RATIONAL COOKERY, 1831

[Charles Agvent]

[COOKERY]. THE COOK NOT MAD, OR RATIONAL COOKERY; BEING A COLLECTION OF 
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED RECEIPTS Embracing not only the art of curing 
various kinds of meat and vegetables for future use, but of Cooking, in 
its general acceptation, to the taste, habits, and degrees of luxury, 
Prevalent with the American Publick in Town and Country. To Which are 
Added, Directions for preparing comforts for the Sick Room; together 
with sundry Miscellaneous kinds of information, of importance to 
housekeepers in general, nearly all tested by experience. Watertown, NY: 
Knowlton & Rice, 1831. Second Edition. Small octavo (3" x 5-1/2") bound 
in recent full brown morocco leather with title and publication date in 
gilt on the front cover; (i-iii), iv-v, (7-120) pages. Published one 
year after the First Edition, this delightful early American cookery and 
household management book was designed to teach the preparation of "Good 
republican dishes," instead of "English, French, and Italian methods of 
rendering things indigestible." The emphasis is on American ingredients: 
cranberries, corn, turkeys, pigeons, watermelon, etc. Includes recipes 
and instructions for general cookery and housekeeping, preserving and 
dyeing, pesticides, gardening, simple medicines and cleansers. Included 
are recipes for Tasty Indian Pudding, Federal Pancakes, Good Rye and 
Indian Bread (cornmeal), Johnnycake, Indian Slapjack, Washington Cake, 
and Jackson Jumbles. In spite of the author's American intentions, the 
book does include some foreign influences and contains one of the 
earliest known recipes for shish-kebab in American cookbooks. Cagle 180; 
Lowenstein 127. WorldCat locates only the Huntington Library copy of 
this edition. Foxing throughout, some leaves closely trimmed, lacking 
original endpapers, repairs to title and a few other pages with no loss 
of text, two leaves bound out of order. Well used but text complete in a 
handsome binding. Overall Very Good.

This same book was published in 1831 in Canada as well with the word 
"Canadian" substituted for "American" in the subtitle and is commonly 
referred to as Canada's first cookbook. (#019198) $1,500.00

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