American cookery, or The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake : Adapted to this country, and all grades of life. / By Amelia Simmons, an American orphan. ; Published according to act of Congress.

Author/creator Simmons, Amelia
Format Microform
Publication InfoHartford : Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. For the author, 1796.
Description47 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm (8vo)
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 31193
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31193. ^A478749
General note"This seems to be the first cookery book published in the United States of American authorship.$
General noteSignatures: [A]⁴ B-F⁴ [G]1 ([G]1 verso blank).
General noteErrata note, p. [49].
References Evans 31193
References Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1356
References Lowenstein, E. Amer. cookery (3rd ed.), 11
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31193).
Genre/formCookbooks.
Other titleAmerican cookery.