American cookery, or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables
Subtitle: and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, 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.
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin for the author
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Cookery, American -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables.
Notes: Evans 31193
"Published according to Act of Congress."
With an errata leaf.
First cook book written by an American and published in the United States. Cf. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib.
Signatures: [A]-E⁶
LC copy missing top right corner of t.p. and lower half of last leaf (p. 47); has leaf of advertisement and errata bound after p. 24.