Heading: (Southern)
Author: Various Authors
Title: Six Early Florida Community Cookbooks
Place Published: Various Places
Publisher:
Date Published: Various Dates
Description:

Wrappers, some pictorial. All but last are First Editions.

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  A.B.C. Cook Book. 32 pp. Pictorial wrappers. (This appears to reprint the contents of the Women's Exchange Cook Book of 1911, but was published for Hallenthalls Riverside Bakery in Jacksonville, Florida, and with emphasis on Florida ingredients, such as orange marmalade, green tomato conserve, how to pare a pineapple, date souffle, etc. Small pieces of wrappers lacking at corners, creasing and irregular fading, else a good copy of a fragile cookbook, possibly the earliest published for Jacksonville). Newark, NY: W.C. & F.D. Burgess, 1914.


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  The Ladies' Guild of the Holy Cross Episcopal Church. Dainty Dishes. 46 pp. Scattered ads for Sanford businesses. ( In 1870, Henry Shelton Sanford purchased the land west of Mellonville. He planned a new city "the Gate City of South Florida," which he believed would become the transportation hub for all of southern Florida. Mr. Sanford's greatest interest in Florida was the development of Belair, a citrus grove and experimental garden near Sanford. More than 140 varieties of citrus, including the Valencia orange, were tested for adaptability to the Florida climate. By the first decade of the 20th century, Sanford was one of the largest vegetable shipping centers in the United States, and received the nickname "Celery City" for the most successful crop. Recipes reflect the diverse population: Mexican chocolate, Calabaza dulce, hot tamales, chop suey, cocoanut cream candy, stuffed dates, ground peanut candy, shrub of nectar, Jamaica ginger beer, etc. Fine). Sanford, FL: c.1915.


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  The Best Yet Cook Book: An Every Day Guide, for the Millions to Economical and Practical Cooking. Ads for Smyrna businesses throughout. Printed wrappers. (Recipes for Jeff Davis pudding, orange cake, pork and beans, cove oyster salad, quince honey, Spanish pickles, etc. New Smyrna Beach occupies a notable place in history as the site of the largest single attempt a colonial settlement in what is now the United States. Dr. Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish physician and entrepreneur, obtained a grant of land from the British Crown. In 1768 he established a colony of 1,225 immigrants on the coastal plantations at New Smyrna, with a view toward the commercial production of such crops as corn, indigo, rice, hemp, and cotton. But for the next two decades, sugar plantations ruled the day, until Seminoles destroyed the town. Today, it is known for citrus and tourism, with a glistening beach. Slight warping to pages, staples rusting away, else about very good. Scarce). New Smyrna, FL: 1906.


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  Woman's Club. The Woman's Club Souvenir Cook Book. 20 pp. String-tied dec. black wrappers printed in yellow. First Edition. (Founded in the 1880's, like much of Northwest Florida, DeFuniak Springs was settled mainly by Scots from Virginia and the Carolinas. Appropriately, recipes include Virginia batter bread, chicken gumbo, oatmeal cookies, etc. Near fine).


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  Tarwanda Circle No. 4 of the Woman's Missionary and Aid Society of the First Baptist Church. Dainty Dishes and How to Prepare Them: Tested Recipes. 67 pp. Dec. wrappers. First Edition. (Pepper mangoes, shrimp wiggle, oyster pie, avocado or alligator pear salad, okra stew, Mexican rice, orange jam Florida style, and other dishes of the region. Spots to last few pages & rear wrapper, else very good). Tampa, FL: Ladies of First Baptist Church, 1923.


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  Perry, Tona & Pearl Bond. The Cricket Cook Book. 105 pp. Gold-foil wrappers. 5th Ed. (Very good, with manuscript recipe for key lime pie in rear). Tampa: [1968].