The Kansas Home Cook-Book by Mrs. C.H. Cushing, Mrs. B. Gray; Compilers - 1883

Leavenworth, KS : Crew & Bro., Booksellers and Publishers, 1883 Crew & Bro., Booksellers and Publishers, Leavenworth, KS. 1883. Hardcover. Stated 5th Edition/Nine Thousand. Book is a bit loose in the hinges; square, and unmarked but for a sticker for the Historical Society on the table of contents page. Book Condition: Poor but complete; small section at head missing; soiling to boards; internal hinges are torn but firmly held by mull cloth; front and rear first 2-3 pages are loose; center signature had pulled from the string in the spine. No DJ. Black cloth boards and spine with gilt title on the front board; blind stamped borders on front and rear boards. Local Leavenworth advertising as endpapers. 317 pp 12mo. This book consists of reciped contributed by ladies of Leavenworth and other cities and towns. Published by the Board of Managers for the benefit of the Home for the Friendless. This is not a Betty Crocker Cookbook; this full of old recipes and old ways of cooking foods with ingredients not found in today's markets. A presentable fragile book from NE Kansas.