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The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887)

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The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887)

Fanny Lemira Gillette and Hugo Ziemann

821 pages~16 hr 22 min read83 chapters$4.99
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Presidential portraits share the pages with carving instructions: the White House cook book pairs Frances Folsom Cleveland and Helen Herron Taft with soups, roasts, and state dinner grandeur for home tables. The 1887 collaboration between a steward and a cookery author became an American wedding-gift institution. Cook like the executive mansion. Set a presidential table.

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83 chapters

  1. 1THE WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK
  2. 2MRS. F.L. GILLETTE
  3. 3HUGO ZIEMANN,
  4. 4PUBLISHERS' PREFACE
  5. 5CONTENTS.
  6. 6HELEN HERRON TAFT.
  7. 7Copyright, Photo Clinediust, Washington.
  8. 8WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK.
  9. 9CARVING.
  10. 10SOUPS.
  11. 11FRANCES FOLSOM CLEVELAND.
  12. 12EDITH CAROW ROOSEVELT.
  13. 13SOUPS WITHOUT MEAT.
  14. 14IDA SAXTON McKINLEY.
  15. 15MODES OF FRYING
  16. 16SHELL-FISH
  17. 17BASTING THE TURKEY.
  18. 18POULTRY AND GAME

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