The National Cook Book by Harland, Marion & Christine Terhune Herrick - Classic American Recipes for Home Cooking & Family Gatherings

550 pp. Pictorial cloth designed by Margaret Armstrong. Jacket. First Edition. NY: Scribner's, 1896. 

550 pages of American recipes, including corned beef & dumplings, maple sugar candy, soft-shell crabs, lobster gumbo, New England clam pie, redhead or canvasback ducks, braised pigeons with mushrooms, jugged hare, Boston brown bread, etc. The end of the recipe for roast prairie chicken (now an endangered species) instructs: "These are dry birds and need mollifying. Send currant jelly and bread sauce around with them." Near fine.

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