The Compleat Housewife
Title | The Compleat Housewife PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Smith |
Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1449428258 |
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (books)
Title | Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (books) PDF eBook |
Author | Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Bibliographic Standards Committee |
Publisher | Library of Congress |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780844411620 |
Third in direct descent from Bibliographic Description of Rare Books (BDRB) -- from preface.
A descriptive catalogue of rare manuscripts & printed books, chiefly liturgical, by W.H.J. Weale
Title | A descriptive catalogue of rare manuscripts & printed books, chiefly liturgical, by W.H.J. Weale PDF eBook |
Author | London hist. music loan exhib |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | |
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Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: Marston manuscripts
Title | Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: Marston manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Manuscripts |
ISBN |
Before the Melting Pot
Title | Before the Melting Pot PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce D. Goodfriend |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1994-10-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691037875 |
From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of rapid Anglicization, ethnicity proved an enduring force in this small urban society well into the eighteenth century.
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University
Title | Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University PDF eBook |
Author | Cornelius G. Buttimer |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2022-01-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0268201005 |
The first full account of North America’s largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts. Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The manuscripts are a part of the age-old heritage of Irish book production, dating to the early Middle Ages. Handwritten works in Houghton contain versions of medieval poetry and sagas, recopied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to which period most of the library’s documents belong. Contemporary writings from that time, as well as ones by the post-Famine Irish immigrant community in the United States, are included. This catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author’s introduction examines how the collection was formed. This untold story is an important chapter in America’s intellectual history, reflecting a phase of unprecedented expansion in Harvard University’s scholarship and teaching during the early twentieth century when the institution’s program of studies began to accommodate an increasing range of European languages and literatures and their sources. This indispensable guide to a major repository’s records of the Irish past, and of America’s Irish diaspora, will interest specialists in early and post-medieval codices. It should prove of relevance as well to scholars and students of comparative literature, cultural studies, and Irish and Irish American history.
Catalog of Books and Rare Manuscripts
Title | Catalog of Books and Rare Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Southwestern Genealogical Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Genealogy |
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