Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie(Cookery)
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie(Cookery)
                                            
                            By Eliza Leslie
                            
                                6 Nov, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        An 1828 cookbook featuring recipes for delicious desserts, written so that a modern cook may follow them.The first work by the prolific cookbook author Eliza Leslie. Considered the earliest example of a cookbook in which recipes are throughout broken
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                                                An 1828 cookbook featuring recipes for delicious desserts, written so that a modern cook may follow them.The first work by the prolific cookbook author Eliza Leslie. Considered the earliest example of a cookbook in which recipes are throughout broken into their three distinct components: name, ingredients, and instructions. Leslie went on to publish Domestic French Cookery, the second French cookbook published in America, following Ude's The French Cook, as well as The Indian Meal Book, published in the UK to encourage a market for corn meal in England. A very handsome copy, in publisher's textured, gilt-titled brown cloth. Tiniest bit of edgewear, otherwise near fine Less