1960 Virginia Hostess: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Volume I

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards.

This volume is a first edition.

This volume assembles 100 eighteenth-century recipes, “receipts”, for authentic colonial-style refreshments suitable for social gatherings or hostessing, drawn from historic cookbooks, with commentary on traditional Virginian hospitality practices. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving and one other full page engraving on the verso of the first page.

Recipes include: "Olive Royals", "Fried Patties", "Beef Olives", "Fairy Butter", "Scarlet Beef", "Bath Cakes", "Cannellons", "Cinnamon Cakes", "Princess Amelia Biscuits", "Fish in Jelly", and "Moon-Shine", to name a few.