The Common Sense Recipe Book: Containing All the Latest Recipes on Cooking With Economy and Also Very Valuable Medicinal Recipes is a historical, early-19th-century Canadian cookbook that emphasizes frugal cooking and home remedies. Key features of this historical, often reprinted, cookbook include:
- contains 150-200+ recipes focused on frugal, resourceful home management, designed to help cooks create nutritious meals with limited resources
- recipes cover a wide range of dishes, including soups, sauces, poultry, game, desserts, and the utilization of leftovers
- includes sections on popular medicine of the era, providing practical, sometimes antiquated, health and household advice.
- an early reproduction from the late 19th century (e.g., ~1895), offering insight into historical Canadian home-cooking methods.
- 19th-Century Ingredients feature mutton, offal, rabbit, and a variety of homemade condiments.
Condition: Good. Text is clean, yellowing with limited foxing. All pages are intact. The board cover is worn with a tear at the top spine. Gold embossed lettering is visible. Spine is slightly skewed.
Publishling detailsJohn Lovell & Son, 9th edition(1903)
Hardcover: 207 pages
Weight: 386 g
Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.5 x 21.5
CV-TCS-732