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Canadian Cookbook Collection Highlights*
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| Mrs Clarke's Cookery Book, Toronto, 1883 Canadian Cookbook Collection TX715.6 C54 |
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| The first Canadian cookbook to be published in American editions (under various titles, from 1889, e.g., The People's Cook Book, Chicago: The People's Publishing Co., 1889); enjoyed a huge distribution in Canada, under various titles, up to about 1920 (The Dominion Cook Book, The Hudson's Bay Cook Book, etc.); the author had an English connection and some of the recipes are related to ones in The Official Handbook for the National Training School for Cookery Containing the Lessons on Cookery Which Constitute the Course of Instruction in the School, compiled by R.O.C. [Miss Rose Owen Cole], London: Chapman and Hall, 1877, but there are also distinctly Canadian recipes such as Governor's Sauce | |
| The Souvenir Cook Book, by the Ladies' Aid
Society of Grace Church, Winnipeg, 1896 Canadian Cookbook Collection TX715.6 S6583 |
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| The first cookbook compiled in Manitoba; rare (one of only two known publicly held copies); in Susan Coyne's play called Kingfisher Days, a character refers to this book | |
| The P.L.A. Cook Book, by the Ladies' Aid
Society of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, St John's, Newfoundland,
1925 Canadian Cookbook Collection TX715.6 P52 |
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| The second cookbook compiled in Newfoundland; this is the second of three editions (the first appeared in 1924) of a popular local cookbook that was remembered and honoured in 1992 when the same church published The New P.L.A. Cook Book | |
| New Cook Book of Tested Recipes, Evangeline
Chapter I.O.D.E., 1934 Canadian Cookbook Collection TX715.6 N4756 |
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| One of a series of six favourite Halifax cookbooks from the Evangeline Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, published in the period 1924-52 | |
| Tested Recipes, by St Josaphat's Ladies'
Auxiliary, Edmonton, Alberta Canadian Cookbook Collection TX715.6 T459 |
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| An important record of Ukrainian cookery as practised in the Canadian West | |