THE LADIES' VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON, LONG ISLAND (Compiled by)

[COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] COOK BOOK; The Way We Cook in East Hampton

East Hampton, New York: 1916. Wraps. 159 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Recipes attributed to members including Sarah Gardiner from the Gardiner family of Gardiner Island. Also listed, Mary A. Tillinghast, a renown artist, who offered her pound cake and rock cookie recipes. Other names noted: Talmage, Halsey, and Parsons. Chapters include: Salads, Bread, Cake, Pies, Puddings, Pudding Sauces, Chafingi Dish, Ice Cream and Ices, Canned Vegetables and Jellies, Candies, Soups, Fish, Meats, Sundries, First and Hints, Vegetables, and Pickles. Throughout the cookbook we find a great deal of local advertisements - Millners, Architects, Tailors, Florists, Dentist, Horseshoers, and many more. Owners signatue on first advertisement page. Covers chipped with loss to spine. Cover and first page disbound. Pages lightly foxed. This edition not found online 07/24. Tan illustrated wraps. Poor. Item #4339

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