ALLEN, Ida Bailey.
Pressure Cooking.
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1947.
$650.00
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Item Number: RRB-152830
First Edition of Ida Bailey Allen's Pressure Cooking, Finely Bound in Leather
First edition of Ida Bailey Allen’s classic guide to the modern art of pressure cooking. Octavo, finely bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ribbon bound in, illustrated with photographs. In near fine condition. A charming mid-century American cookbook in a handsome leather binding.
Ida Bailey Allen (1885-1973) was one of the most popular American cookery writers and broadcasters of her day, a pioneering home economist known as the Nation’s Homemaker, whose radio programs, syndicated columns, and dozens of cookbooks reached millions of American households from the 1920s through the postwar years. Published in 1947, Pressure Cooking rode the great postwar enthusiasm for the pressure cooker, then newly affordable and fast becoming a fixture of the American kitchen, offering recipes and techniques for preparing everything from soups and meats to vegetables and desserts in a fraction of the usual time. A period piece of American domestic life, it captures the optimism and modernity of the postwar kitchen.
Pressure Cooking.
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