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Home helps with illustrations : a practical and useful book of recipes with much valuable information on cooking and serving breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and teas / edited by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer. 95 p. 1898

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Mixed Materials 471, Folder 4
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Item [4] promotes Cottolene, Fairy Soap, and Gold Dust Washing Powder from N.K. Fairbank Company. Includes advertisments; illustrations show product packaging, racial caricatures including African Americans picking cotton, and exhibitable illustration of Rorer. Includes household hints and advice on dinner invitations, wine pairings, table setting, tea making, stain removal, etc.; includes chart of seasonal fish availablity and diagram of table glassware. Includes index, product testimonials, quotations and proverbs throughout booklet. Includes recipes by Wister, Parker, Rorer, Corson, Parloa, Lincoln, Harland, Owens, and Gillette. Sample recipes: cream of celery soup, oyster short cake, jugged rabbit, curried eggs, gooseberry pudding.

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Collection

Culinary Ephemera: Individual Authors, Circa 1880s-1926
Total components 40
Last indexed 2025-02-09