The Manhattan Cook-Book

Containing Many Valuable Original Receipts and Other Useful Information

 This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1877, is a cookbook, patent medicine advertisement, and medical manual all combined in one small volume published by the manufacturer of a well-known and widely used nineteenth century home remedy, Atwood’s Bitters.  Historical records assert that in 1840 Moses Atwood of Boston…