Description: A Treatise on the Art of Boiling Sugar, Crystallizing, Lozenge-Making, Comfits, Gum Goods, and Other Processes for Confectionary, Etc. In Which are Explained, in an Easy and Familiar Manner, The Various Methods of Manufacturing Every Description of Raw and Refined Sugar Goods, As Sold By the Trade, Confectioners, and Others. By Henry Weatherley, Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia, 1865, 131 pp plus publisher’s list, blind stamped cloth, 8 x 5”, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to edges and corners. Spine abraded and nearly perished. Loss along spine with binding exposed. Soiling to rear board with staining. Bookseller’s ticket of John Adams, 49 Oxford Street, Southampton on pastedown. Textblock lightly toned with general age-related staining. Continuous, sometimes moderate, foxing throughout. Binding remains intact. Free of known ownership or marginalia. Please see photos. A simple and easy to use Victorian-era confectionary cookbook published in Philadelphia. It seems to be the first to describe “water ices”, a staple and Philly tradition! The recipes are rather straight forwards and would have appealed to the lower and middle classes. A delicious recipe for “Pine Apple Water Ice” appears. RAREA1865AMOB
Price: 500 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Author: Henry Weatherley
Publisher: Henry Carey Baird
Topic: Basic, General Cooking
Subject: Culinary Arts
Original/Facsimile: Original
