THE ART OF CONFECTIONERY: WITH VARIOUS METHODS OF PRESERVING FRUITS AND FRUIT JUICES; FRUIT AND OTHER SYRUPS; SUMMER BEVERAGES, AND DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING CAKES. ALSO DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAKING ICE CREAM, SHERBET, ETC.
Book Details + Condition: J.E. Tilton and Company (Boston). First Edition, 1866. Hardcover measuring 7.75" x 5.5". Green boards with gilt decoration and titling to front and spine; upper edge gilt. 346 pages. Personal copy (with bookplate) of internationally known home economist, radio and TV personality Julia Perrin Hindley, aka "Julie Lee Wright". Scarce mid-19th century cookbook providing recipes for the era's various confectioneries, ices and sweets. Chapters include:
- The Art of Confectionery
- Candies and Sugar Confectionery
- Transparent Icing for Dessert Cakes, Bonbons and Fruits
- Candy Making
- On Caramel Fruits and Various Cream Bonbons
- On Liqueur Bonbons, Psyche's Kisses and Bobolios
- On Various Kinds of Fruit Paste Drops
- On Perfumed or Stomachic Lozenges
- On Chocolate Bonbons and Jujubes
- Jellies, Marmalades, Preserves
- Brandy Fruits
- Compotes
- Composition and Preparation of Fruit Syrups
- Canning or Bottling Fruits
- To Preserve the Pulp of Different Fruits For Making Ices
- Preparation of Dried Fruits
- Cake-Making
- Almond Soufflé Rout-Cakes
- Dessert Wafers in General
- Different Kinds of Nougat, Pastafrolle, and Chestnut Biscuits
- Bouchees, or Dessert-Cakes, Glaces with Whole Fruits and Preserves
- Ice Creams
- Water and Fruit Ices
- Iced Puddings
- Iced Beverages called Graniti
- Different Kinds of Iced Punch
- Coffee
- Chocolate
- Tea
- Spirituous Creams, Elixirs, Miscellaneous Liquors, and Domestic Wines
Firm binding; light shelf wear to boards; chafed spine ends; foxing to first and last few pages (and a bit to the textblock); bookplate and small bookseller sticker to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings, save a few pencilled notes to rear free endpaper. Bookplate belongs to internationally known home economist, radio and TV personality Julia Perrin Hindley, aka "Julie Lee Wright" - her stage name to her radio listeners and TV viewers. She used the bookplate's goose image for her personal collection of cookbooks, reported to be in the thousands. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
