(Victorian) Catherine Owen. Choice Cookery.

Brown pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. NY: Harper & Bros., 1889.

Catherine Owen was a respected author of cookbooks who always took cost and economy into consideration. Written before measurements were listed with ingredients, the recipes here are in paragraph form, for dishes such as pigeon cutlets, salmis of snipe, fillets of teal (duck) with anchovies, fillets of rabbit with cucumber, etc. Fine condition.