American cookery, or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables
Subtitle: and the best modes of making puff-pastes, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake, adapted to this country, and all grades of life
By: by Amelia Simmons, an American orphan.
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster ... for the authoress
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Cookery, American -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: American cookery; Art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables
Notes: Lowenstein, E.  Amer. cookery (3rd ed.), 12
Evans 38505
"Published according to Act of Congress."
Date of printing from Lowenstein who notes an advertisement for this ed. in the Albany gazette, Oct. 31, 1796; In a note for the 1822 ed. Bitting records, "2nd edition undated, c. 1800." Cf. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 435; Evans also lists this ed. in 1800.
In marbled paper wrapper.
Signatures: [A]⁸ B-D⁸.