Name/Title
"GATHERED CRUMBS"Entry/Object ID
2004.168.1.1Description
Color: Blue; Brown
"Gathered Crumbs," (Los Angeles: The Catholic Women's Club of Los Angeles,) 1925. The 206-page harddover book has a light brown cover with a simple blue line border on the front, within which are the title at the top, the club logo at the center, and a subtitle of "A COLLECTION of / CHOICE / TEDTED RECIPES" at the bottom. Contents include definition of cookery terms, types of foods from appetizers to vegetables, arranged alphabetically by type, speciality recipes for the sick, material on home canning, baking, housecleaning, renovation, and others, and several pages of memoranda at the back. There are also a few advertisements at the back, as well. There is a 1932 inscription from the club on the front flysheet. With edge, corner, and spine abrasions, acid burns on flysheets from cover contact, creases on the back cover, dented corners, the back near the top center, and small ones at some edges, cover soiling, page darkening, some foxing, losses at the bottom of the back flysheet, moisture damage, probably from food stains, on the cover, stains throughout the cover and handling stains on some pages, and tears to the cover fabric and from the first flysheet through the title page and on pages 7-9, the condition is fair.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Cookbooks, Catholic Women's Club of Los Angeles, The, Cookery--Los Angeles (Calif.)