Author: McCarthy, Marguerite Gilbert
Title: Aunt Ella's Cook Book
Publisher: Little, Brown
Place: Boston
Date: 1949
Edition: First ed
Pages: 215
Binding: Hardback
Condition: VERY GOOD very good dj
Book Id: MAIN002432I
Details: Introduction, index
Dj: When Mrs. McCarthy wrote THE COOK IS IN THE PARLOR she included in it a few of her Aunt Ella's recipes, but these were only tantalizers. Now she presents the whole cook book by means of which Mrs. Ella Lipscomb gained fame as the best cook for miles around.
This is a country cook book, with recipes for every day or festive days. When the neighbors came to help with the haying, they flocked into the farmhouse to eat crisp haystack hash and strawberry shortcake overflowing with fat berries. Fourth of July clambakes, strawberry festivals, Sunday school picnics all required their special dishes. Aunt Ella's recipes for those are here, along with her pumpkin chips and pickle relish, which won prizes every year at the county fair; her oatmeal bread, spicy kedgeree, apple slump, elderberry jelly and blackberry wine.
These are recipes for food the way mother, and grandmother, used to make it, revised for use in today's compact kitchens, to fit the modern woman's busy schedule. Besides the recipes there are household hints on meal preparation, on keeping vegetables, getting rid of ants even for making furniture polish. Mrs. McCarthy shares a rich heritage with her sister cooks!About the author: Mrs. McCarthy's initiation into the art of cooking was given to her as a child on her Aunt Ella's farm in New York State. Since that time her interest in food has grown, not diminished; She has cooked for two in a "band-box" apartment in New York City, for crowds at her ranch in California, and for large and small groups at her home in New Hampshire.