Name/Title
"GRANITE IRON WARE COOK BOOK"Entry/Object ID
99.55.1.1Description
Color: Blue; Red; White
"Granite Iron Ware Cook Book" (St. Louis: St. Louis Stamping Company, ca. 1887), 64 pp. The paperback book has a color image on the front cover of a woman dressed in a red dress with white front and a blue bonnet holding a piece of iron ware in her hands. Next to her is a wood table with a coffee pot and saucepan on or next to it. The title of the publication is above, to the side and below this image. On the reverse is a color image of a young boy sitting on a mooring on a wood dock fishing. Below this is, in black ink, "COMPLIMENTS OF / W. H. BLASLAND / Stoves, Tinware, & House Furnishing Goods, / Elm Street, Bowdoinham, Me." In very small letters below this is "DONALDSON BROTHERS, N. Y." and "COPYRIGHTED 1887." At the front of the book are reprinted testimonials on the quality of the company's ironware products. There are also several pages on dinner etiquette and planning, followed by recipes including soups; fish; poultry and game; meats; vegetables; breads; biscuits, muffins and etc.; entrees; puddings; salads; cakes; pies, tarts, and etc,; ices, creams, jellies and etc.; custards; waffles and puffs; candies. The work concludes with household tips and a table of times to do household tasks. Interspersed are line drawings of ironware products sold by the company. The cover has dogeared corners, abrasions and creases and the artifact is in fair condition.Lexicon
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EtiquetteSearch Terms
Three-dimensional, Cookbooks, Donaldson Brothers, St. Louis Stamping Company, Cookery, American, Cookware, Dinners and dining
