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Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches
By Eliza Acton, Sarah Hale
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in 1845 in Philadelphia, is one of the great masterpieces of English cooking, adapted for local American households by an important and influential cookbook writer, the editor of the classic nineteenth century women’s magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book. Eliza Action’s masterpiece set out the fundamentals of domestic…