Seventy-five receipts for pastry, cakes, and sweetmeats /

"Eliza Leslie's Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats was the first distinctively baking cookbook published in America, as well as the first to share ingredients in a systematic list order at the beginning of each recipe. As Eliza recorded at the time of initial publicati...

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Main Author: Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858
Other Authors: Greenspan, Dorie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, [2013]
Edition:Eighth edition, revised, with 40 additional receipts.
Series:American antiquarian cookbook collection.
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Summary:"Eliza Leslie's Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats was the first distinctively baking cookbook published in America, as well as the first to share ingredients in a systematic list order at the beginning of each recipe. As Eliza recorded at the time of initial publication, "All the ingredients, with their proper quantities, are enumerated in a list at the head of each receipt, a plan which will greatly facilitate the business of procuring and preparing the requisite article.""--Amazon.com, viewed June 5, 2013.
Item Description:"Reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts"--Preliminary page.
Edition statement from Facsimile title page.
Facsimile reprint with new introduction. Originally published: Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1835.
Physical Description:106 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:1449427472
9781449427474