Search Results: The Frugal Housewife by Susannah Carter

Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. Fourth. hardcover. very good. 3 engraved illustrations. 132 pages. Small slim 8vo, period leather-backed marbled boards; corners worn; typical browning to text and staining at top margin, archival repair to 2 horizontal tears; 18th century ownership signature on endpaper. Philadelphia James Carey, 1796. Fourth American edition of the second cookbook printed in America.<br/><br/> Included are recipes for making domestic wines, various bills of fare, and a proper arrangement of dinners, two courses, for every month of the year. Evans 30168; Lowenstein 15; Wheaton & Kelly 1091.<br/><br/>

Dublin: Printed by James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury, 1765. First Edition. Near Fine. Evident first edition, this Dublin imprint was functionally published simultaneous with the London imprint (see Maclean, pages 23-24). Bound in contemporary full speckled calf; five raised bands, later gilt-tooled red morocco spine label. Spine rebacked with original laid-down and early repairs to edges, 6.5 x 4", 18mo. Near Fine with small patches of worming at front pastedown and bottom margins of the first twenty-five leaves; not affecting text; old hand notations on front pastedown, lacking rear endpaper; small chip to rear pastedown; contents clean and bright. An egalitarian cookery by a seemingly unknown London female cook, Susannah Carter (fl. 1765). A no fuss book of household management for the average 18th-century housewife. It seamlessly does away with extravagant spices and costly ingredients to make room for more homespun receipts at a time when cooking was arguably at its most decadent. Carter was one… Read More