Alcott, William A. The Young House-keeper or Thoughts on Food and Cookery. San Francisco showing 2 women preparing food

showing 2 women preparing food in a large kitchen

near Vanderbilt Ave

and decorative typographical devices

agricultural prohibitions

Alcott, William A. The Young House-keeper or Thoughts on Food and Cookery. San Francisco showing 2 women preparing foodBrown cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fifth Edition. Boston: George W. Light, 1842. Pre Civil War cookbook which has chapters on various foodstuffs such as rice, apples, milk, the strawberry, food from rye, food from wheat, etc., with history and descriptions as well as recipes. Includes the final chapter not included in earlier editions, "Recipes for Plain Cooking". Lacking front free endpaper, else very good.