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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Carter, Susannah.] [The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook.]

THE THIRD COOKBOOK IN AMERICA, WITH PLATES BY REVERE (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Carter, Susannah.] [The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook.] 2 plates by Paul Revere, one complete, one detached and quite defective. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 calf, quite worn and covers detached; moderate foxing, lacking title page and 8 other leaves, other chips and tears in margins occasionally grazing text, final leaf defective with early repair; 2 early owners' signatures on front pastedown. [Boston, 1772]

  • Notes: first american edition and only the third cookery title published in America, after the 1742 Compleat Housewife and two editions of the 1762 Cyder-Maker's Instructor. A reprint of an English work, as were its predecessors. Though printed without a date, it was advertised in the Boston Gazette as "this day published" on 2 March 1772. It was reprinted several times in the coming decades, and heavily influenced later cookbooks by American authors. Do not attempt lamprey pie, marrow pudding, or oatmeal flummery in your kitchen without this scarce and important early cookbook. Brigham, Revere pages 95-98; Evans 12348; Lowenstein, Early American Cookery 4. ESTC lists only 5 copies, two of them noted as defective by Brigham. No previous copies found at auction, though Goodspeed offered one for sale in 1954. with--a group of approximately 30 additional manuscript recipes and clippings found in the cookbook, most apparently dating from about the 1850s.
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