The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, Containing Thoroughly Tested and Reliable Recipes for Cooking, Directions for the Care of the Sick, and Practical Suggestions, Contributed Especially for this Work

BURR, Hattie A.

Published by Alfred Mudge & Sons, Printers, Boston, 1886

About this Item

Octavo, 8 x 5.5", beige boards titled in black, brown cloth spine, [4], xvi, 148 pp. Second edition of the first women's suffrage cookbook published in the United States, printed in the same year as the first. The book was edited and compiled by suffragist Harriet Burr, and printed for sale at the Woman Suffrage Bazaar held in Boston in 1886. It contains recipes contributed by over 150 American suffragists; according to the preface, "Among the contributors are many who are eminent in their professions as teachers, lecturers, physicians, ministers, and authors,-whose names are household words in the land. A book with so unique and notable a list of contributors, vouched for by such undoubted authority, has never before been given to the public." Among the many attributed recipes are dishes such as Coraline Cake (contributed by Chicago gynecologist Alice Bunker Stockham), graham gems (contributed by writer Mary A. Livermore), pickled pineapple, Mother's Election Cake, and much more. At the end of the book is a chapter on cooking for the sick, a section of household and health advice, and a chapter printing quotes in favor of suffrage by notables of the era. 52 in OCLC for both 1886 editions; the second edition was reissued in 1890. An attractive copy with covers worn along edges, bit of staining to covers, occasional foxing to pages, upper corner of some pages creased, clipping affixed to front pastedown, two other clippings laid in with resultant offsetting to pages, sections of first two advertisement leafs excised with loss to portion of ads.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, Containing Thoroughly Tested and Reliable Recipes for Cooking, Directions for the Care of the Sick, and Practical Suggestions, Contributed Especially for this Work
• Publisher: Alfred Mudge & Sons, Printers, Boston
• Publication Date: 1886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition.
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