Author: [California Regional Benefit Cookery Book]. Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore; Taft, Mrs Wm. H.; Sherman, Mrs. J. S. - Contributors
Title: CHOICE EATABLES. Containing Original Autograph Recipes Written Espressly for this Book by the First Ladies of the Land : : : : Compiled by the Christian Endeavor Society of the First Congregational Church of San Jose, California
Description: San Jose, California: San Jose Printing Company, 1908. 1st printing. Not in Axford, Brown, Cook, Glozier nor Wheaton & Kelly. Original publisher's brown stiff-stock printed paper wrappers. 112, [2] pp. Recipes signed in type. Inserted blank leaves [for notes]. Local business adverts throughout. Facsimiles of the letters sent by the first ladies. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Wrappers show some wear, soiling & chipping. Front wrapper beginning to detach top 3". Paper chipping at spine ends. Prior owner pencil marginalia. A Good copy. Your typical benefit cookery book, with recipes for the usual: bread, vegetables, salads, eggs, cookies, cake, etc, etc. though with the decidely atypical submissons by Roosevelt, Taft & Sherman, who, respectively, provided recipes for spice cake, stuffed eggs, and peanut cookies. Quite scarce, with, at the time of cataloguing, OCLC recording just two institutional holdings [SJSU & UCLA].

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