National Viands a la Mode / Recipes Collected by Mrs. De Salis (1895)

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London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895, stiff boards with cloth spine

First English edition, Good +

[COOK BOOK]  [RECIPES]  Harriet A. De Salis.  National Viands a la Mode / Recipes Collected by Mrs. De Salis (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895).  Scarce English first edition.  Book of recipes of viands (articles of food) from countries outside of Great Britain collected by this well-known late-19^th century English author of books on cooking, household hints, fancy dress, and floral arrangements.

Stiff boards with cloth spine binding; vi, [ii], 92 pp; index.  Name of a former owner [Mrs. A. J. Owen / New York City / May 1924] on first free flyleaf; later sticker with Mrs. Owen’s more recent address [Portland, Oregon] on inside front cover; clipping on sandwiches from three countries laid down on rear flyleaf.  Covers show some wear and bumped corners, now protected with mylar.  Former small sticker residue on inside back cover.  Overall, in G+ condition.  [24-559]

Harriet A. De Salis, in the Preface, says the publication of this cook book was to please the many patronesses of her “A la Mode” series of cookery books who had written to her asking for recipes for foreign dishes.  Only a small portion of her large collection of printed materials and manuscripts related to cookery were used in the book, but she offered to give out others for a “directed envelope and twelve stamps to be sent to [her].  The proceeds will be devoted to the education of young necessitous gentlewomen in earning their own living.”  Recipes included are from the African continent, America and Canada, South America and Mexico, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Orient, Russi, Poland, Siberia, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and West Indian.