Club House Cook Book

The Tuesday House Club Ass'n of Sacramento, California

Published by Press of A.J. Johnston Co, Sacramento, California, 1904

About this Item

8.5 x 6", grey printed wrappers encased in green suede wrappers, 127 pp, with pages 96-127 consisting of local advertisements. An early owner has crudely encased the original booklet in green suede wrappers, with cloth reinforcements to hinges; occasional staining and creasing to pages, mild staining and paper abrasions to covers, staining and chipping to suede wrappers, three of the advertisement pages have been covered with recipe clippings, additional clipping to margin of one page, few annotations to pages. An early Sacramento, California community cookbook by a social club dedicated to the civic and community interests of the city. Includes recipes for "southern gumbo soup (as made by our old Auntie Mary)", navarro salad, enchiladas, olive patties, frijioles, la laurita nut cake, rum punch and more. This copy contains six pages of manuscript recipes on blank pages, or in the margins, including oysters in chafing dish, currant punch, lady fingers, and Easter cake. The contributor of each recipe is named. Four in OCLC.

Seller Inventory # 10151

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Club House Cook Book
• Publisher: Press of A.J. Johnston Co, Sacramento, California
• Publication Date: 1904
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • California
  • Cookery