A Friend In The Kitchen [1st Ed]

Published by Echo Publishing, Melbourne, 1898

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Seller: Orchard Bookshop [ANZAAB / ILAB], Adelaide, SA, AustraliaOrchard Bookshop [ANZAAB / ILAB]

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Rare First Edition [Echo Publishing, Melbourne, 1898] of this early Australian cookbook. Full title: “A Friend in the Kitchen: Or What to Cook and How to Cook it. Containing about 400 choice recipes carefully tested; Together with plain directions on healthful cookery; how to can fruit; a week’s menu; proper food combinations; rules for dyspeptics; food for infants; simple dishes for the sick; wholesome drinks; useful tables on nutritive values of foods, time required to digest food, weights and measures for the Kitchen, etc.”; 128pp; illustrated blue paper over card covers, some creasing, inner front hinge taped; a very good copy. Predates American edition printed the following year. An early Vegetarian cookbook including chapters  on “Substitutes For Meats” & “How To Become A Vegetarian”. Anna Colcord & her husband Willard were Seventh-day Adventists from the United States. During their stay, the Adventists established the Sanitarium Health Food Company, which continues today & produces Weet-Bix cereal. …

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Bibliographic details

Title
A Friend In The Kitchen [1st Ed]
Author
Colcord, Mrs Anna L.
Publisher
Echo Publishing, Melbourne
Publication year
1898
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Soft cover
Edition
First Edition
Printing
1st Printing
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS, Cookery / Food / Drink

Orchard Bookshop [ANZAAB / ILAB]

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