Culinary Arts
Marie Martinelo.
The New York Cook Book.
New York City: 1892
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
Hinde Amchanitzki
Lehr-bukh vi azoy Tsu Kokhen
un Baken
[Textbook on How to Cook and Bake].
New York, 1901
African & Middle Eastern Division
800 Proved Pecan Recipes:
Their Place In The
Menu
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Lancaster County, PA: Keystone
Pecan Research Laboratory, 1925
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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As the editor of Marie Martinelo's 1892 New York Cook Book
reminds us, "The fashions of the cuisine, like those of the dress,
are subject to changes." Nowhere is that so clear as in the Library's
incomparable collection of cookbooks, including the many cookbooks
in the General Collections, and, in the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division, the Elizabeth Pennell Collection and the 4,346-volume
Katherine Golden Bitting Collection, donated by Bitting's husband.
Katherine Bitting, a food chemist with the Department of Agriculture
and herself the author of numerous books and pamphlets about food
preservation and consumption, acquired Martinelo's "complete manual
of cookery in all its branches."
In addition to recipes, the book includes helpful household hints
on such things as making one's own soap and ink; how to eradicate
"household vermin" like ants and spiders with a mixture of hellebore
and molasses; how to remove rust from cutlery (in the days before
stainless steel); and how to prepare special dishes for the infirm
such as tapioca jelly and wine possets.
Appended to this volume is a special treat: "Miss Leslie's seventy-five
receipts for pastry, cakes and sweetmeats," temptingly illustrated
with this chromolithograph of various fashionable desserts that
once were common but are now seldom prepared at home by those who
are health-conscious and/or pressed for time.
The New York Cook Book is one of a number of such
volumes at the Library that have been consulted by, among others,
film art directors trying to create an authentic period feel in
their productions.
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