Author: [Patent Medicine Promotional Cookery Book]
Title: FAMILY COOK BOOK
Description: New Haven: Healy & Bigelow, Publishers, 1891. Axford, p. 141. Not found in Hoolihan, Cagle, Bitting, nor Wheaton & Kelly. Tan stapled wrappers with black printed lettering and decoration. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 48 pp. Recipes on verso of each leaf, advertisements on recto. 19 wood engraving of Native American chiefs and medicine men, including Sitting Bull, Many Horns, Arrow Point, and Big Elk. 6-11/16" x 4-3/8". Age-toning to wrappers. Bit of wear. Overall, solid VG condition. Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. cookbook and patent medicine promotion. Recipes include "Chicken, Cuban Style," "Dad's Pop-Corn Balls," and the very specific, "To Make Twelve Cream Cakes," while illnesses treated range from constipation to malaria, and more.

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