The Williamsburg art of cookery : or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion ; being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most ancient & approv'd recipes in Virginia cookery ... And also a table of favorite Williamsburg garden herbs /
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection. "Copyright, Colonial Williamsburg, incorporated, December of the year 1938." "Even as many of the recipes which it contains are taken or adapted from the first American cook book, which was printed at Williamsburg in 1742 by William Parks, so is this volume a typographical adaptation from Parks' The compleat housewife, or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion."--A note to the reader, page [275]. "The Texas Cookbook Collection." |
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| Physical Description: | 5 preliminary leaves, 276 pages : frontispiece, plates. ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | "An account of the books consulted in this work": pages [258]-260. |