American cookery
or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, & vegetables : and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards & preserves : and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake : adapted to this country, & all grades of life
by Amelia Simmons
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This is a significant publication, being the first cookbook written by an American, and also published in the United States. It used foods native to America, and terms in use by early Americans. It was widely copied and plagiarized in its day, a common practice prevalent in early cookery books, with the book remaining popular through the early years of the 19th century. There were at least a dozen editions or printings between 1796 and 1831.
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"One hundred & eighty five copies were printed by Edmund B. Thompson at Hawthorn House, Windham Connecticut. Of these, one hundred and sixty are for sale & were issued by the Prospect Press in October, 1937."
Rare Book copy: No. 153.
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