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The National Cookery Book, compiled from original receipts for the Women's Centennial Executive Committee of the International Exhibition of 1876 Author: [Gillespie, Mrs. Elizabeth D.] Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Women's Centennial Executive Committee Date: 1876 Description: 357 pp. Pictorially gilt-stamped green & black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. Owner inscription this was purchased at the Centennial and manuscript copy of poem about dining on front flyleaves. America's first "National Cookbook", covering 37 states & territories, with 950 recipes, in 27 chapters. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic Bibliography, p. 581; Kramer American cookery, 3853. Chapters include all-American recipes for meals and dishes like Florida Charlotte Russe, Wisconsin Breakfast Eggs, Hominy Pancakes, Open Air Cooking (first published recipe for a clam bake), Seven Receipts from an Oneida Squaw, Indian Corn, Turkey with Plum Pudding Stuffing, Crimslech for Passover, Kichlers for Purim Night, Indian Bread with Buttermilk, St. Charles Corn Bread, etc. National Women's Day was 7th November, 1876 - election day of that year. The Women's Centennial Committee raised $126k from the cookbook. Lot Amendments Condition: Boards and endpapers detatched from textblock; cover worn, corners and spine tips esp. so; occasional soiling, foxing, toning, creasing to pages; several clippings laid in; very good textblock in good binding. Item number: 350965