Calder Marshall Adelaide (3 results)

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, 2 volumes, grey cloth boards, yellow endpapers. The second edition of this uncommon Anglo-Chinese cookery text, first published in 1916. Volume I, the English-language issue, was published concurrently with a Chinese-language counterpart designated Volume II. Illustrated with twenty-one plates, the work comprises approximately 1,000 recipes mostly of European influence, specifically formulated for preparation in China. The compiler explicitly limits the selection to dishes whose ingredients were considered readily obtainable within local markets, making the volume a significant document of culinary adaptation and expatriate domestic practice in early twentieth-century China. The text is organized into thematic chapters, including soups, jellies, ice cream, cocktails, macaroni, and meat dishes. Volume 1 is the title page, pages 93-96 with tiny puncture to center of page, volume 2 with hinges cracked, general wear to cloth to edges, corners and ends of spine rubbed and bumped, toning to spines. …

Hard Cover. nd circa 1916. Second Edition. Volume 1 (English). Publisher's pale brown boards with dark brown lettering to the front board and spine. Front paste-down has a time table for boiling, baking, broiling and a table for cooking cereals. The front free end-paper has the contents page. The rear paste-down has weights and measures. Published without a title page. About VG (a name in ink to the FFEP, spine tips soft, spine partially faded, rubbed to the spine edges). Uncommon. A manual of European cooking for Chinese servants. Photographs/ scans available upon request.…

First edition, first printing, of this rare cookbook with 1,000 recipes "adapted to the limitations of the local market, efforts having been made to exclude every recipe the ingredients of which can not be readily procured in China" (preface). Copies were sold in aid of the British Woman's Work Fund and other related charities. The 23 chapters offer directions on the preparation of everything from soups, macaroni, steak, and farinaceous foods to jellies, ice cream, cocktails, and candies, with the final section devoted specially to "invalid's food". This English-language volume was published simultaneously with a translation in Chinese (described as volume II), although whether they were sold as a two-volume set is unclear. Octavo. With halftone frontispiece, 20 similar plates in text, pp. 26 of advertisements at end. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in English and Chinese in gilt, text on pastedowns. Cloth faded and worn, contents generally clean. A very good copy.…