NEW PROCESS CATALOGUE & COOK BOOK

[Cleveland OH]: The Standard Lighting Company, 1894. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. 8 1/2 x 6", light grey cloth with blue titles, [3], 4-5, [1] blank, [i], ii-xx a catalogue of stoves and hardware from the Standard Lighting Company, [1], 8-249, [1 illus], [xii] blank pages for notes. There is a frontis showing a kitchen scene where a woman is cooking on a (presumably) a Standard stove with a girl serving a baby nearby, two stanza verse of four lines each on the same page. The date is taken from page xvi of the catalogue (January 1st, 1894) where the New Process gas ranges are featured. There does not seem to be a typical title page, but the front pagination seems to match the existing pages. The first page is blank and the copyright statement on the verso indicates 1894. This is a very good reference for the type of stoves offered to the public in the decade before the 20th century. There is a line of Evaporating Vapor Stoves which consumes gasoline: the fuild drips, drop by drop, upon a brass evaporator (which is visible), mixes with and carburets (sic) a current of air, descends to the burner, where it lights like gas. The ovens were lined with asbestos. The four burner gas stove cost $35.00 and weighed 220 pounds. The stoves and hardware are illustrated in the catalogue. The remaining 90 % of the book is devoted to a collection of some 800 recipes, written in the old way without the ingredients presented first. The recipes assume quite a bit of cooking knowledge; the recipe for Angel Food [Cake] calles for the whites of 11 eggs, but the recipes is only 7 lines long. All the blank pages have recipes taken from "Detroit book" written in a neat penciled hand. As well there are three small sheets of recipes fastened with a pin, and laid-in. The book is sound and tight with new endpapers, the covers are soiled and rubbed at the edges and corner tips; about Good only . (1.9 JM HOQ 102/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.