Clever Cooking
Seattle, Washington: Metropolitan Printing and Binding Company, 1896. First Edition. Octavo, 9.25 x 6.25", original black leather wrappers, xvi, 319 pp, local advertisements. The first cookbook published in Seattle and in Washington State. A lengthy text, it includes a wide variety of attributed recipes, including stewed pigeons, native wild ducks, Curry Hawaiian, Olympia Oysters and Fresh Mushrooms, papas rellenas, and pilaf, plus at least 11 recipes for alcoholic drinks, such as Ne Plus Ultra Punch and Christmas Punch. Entire chapters are devoted to "Ice Cream and Ices", "Household Economy," and "The Sick Room." Recipes are interspersed with menus, as well as essays like "How to Keep House Successfully With One Servant" and "Suggestions for a Christmas Dinner" that provide a window into the domestic life of the period. Ten in OCLC. This copy with the ownership inscription of Mrs. J.B. Macdougall, wife of a prominent Seattle gold rush era merchant who founded MacDougall and Southwick, which became a popular department store. A well loved copy with cover lettering nearly entirely faded, wear to corners and edges, binding loose (but no pages detached), cracked at front hinge and before table of contents page, staining/spattering/soiling to some pages. Item #12701
Price: $750.00