Tea-Kettle Talk Recipes
Greensboro, North Carolina: Privately Printed for the Alumnae Association of North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, 1924. Octavo, beige cloth, 164 pp. According to the title page, this cookbook was “the result of the combined effort of the alumnae of the North Carolina College for Women," which is today UNC Greensboro. The book contains a wide variety of recipes, including many with the prefix "My Husband's Favorite," i.e. "My Husband's Favorite Corn Bread." There are also recipes for fromage inconnu, Brazilian cocoanut pudding, and "Black Mammy's Hush Puppy." The name of the contributor is printed below each recipe, in some instances together with the woman's profession (one was an attorney) or year of graduation from the college. There are also three pages of manuscript recipes on the rear endpapers, including for date bars and for apple sauce cake. Soiling and wear to covers, foxing and spattering/staining to pages, two closed tears to pp. 141 to 142, tear through rear endpaper, gift inscription to front endpaper. Item #9575
Price: $200.00