The National Cookery Book, compiled from original receipts for the Women's Centennial Executive Committee of the International Exhibition of 1876 - Mrs. Elizabeth D. Gillespie 1876 - Women's Centennial Executive Committee, Philadelphia - First Edition A superb first edition of America's first "National Cookbook", covering 37 states & territories, with 950 recipes, in 27 chapters.

Chapters include all-American recipes for meals and dishes like Florida Charlotte Russe, Wisconsin Breakfast Eggs, Hominy Pancakes, Open Air Cooking (first published recipe for a clam bake), Seven Receipts from an Oneida Squaw, Indian Corn, Turkey with Plum Pudding Stuffing, Crimslech for Passover, Kichlers for Purim Night, Indian Bread with Buttermilk, St. Charles Corn Bread, etc.

National Women's Day was the 7th Nov 1876 - election day of that year and the Women's Centennial Committee raised $126,000 from the cookbook.
  Octavo (book size 21.7x15.7cm), pp. [2] xvi 17-357 [5]. In publisher’s brown grained cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, front panel bordered in black enclosing black and gilt vignette of US flag and the Centennial Exhibition Centre of Philadelphia, all edges tinted brown, brown coated endpapers.   Condition: Fine in near fine cloth, neatly recased and block resewn, with light wear to corners and boards.   Ref: 110744   Price: HK$ 8,000