American cookery, or The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake : adapted to this country, and all grades of life / by Amelia Simmons, an American orphan.

"First edition, second printing. 48pp. Woodcut decoration. Contemporary wraps (frayed), probably original. This is a pefect copy in superb condition: crisp, entirely untrimmed and wide-margined; a single owner's signature else unmarked and without blemish. Early editions of this work are exceedingly...

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Main Author:	Simmons, Amelia
Corporate Author:	Bessenberg Bindery
Language:	English
Published:	Hartford : Printed for Simeon Butler, Northampton, 1798.
Subjects:	Cooking, American. Cooking > Early works to 1800.
Genre:	Early works to 1800.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - All users (Digital Repository @ Michigan State University) Book Plate: MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Beatrice V. Grant Endowment Fund. (Michigan State University Libraries)
Local Note:	MSU: Conservation 1998 Bessenberg Bindery Ann Arbor, MI MSU: Copy 2 is a preservation photocopy. MSU: Feeding America: Historic American Cookbook Project. MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Beatrice V. Grant Endowment Fund.
Physical Description:	48 pages ; 23 cm Also issued online.
Variant Title:	Art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables.
Format:	Book