(Rhode Island) [Metcalf, Isabel Harris].Just a Few…

Tried and True Receipts, Being a Manuscript Cook-Book Printed and Sold for the Benefit of the Providence Day Nursery Association and Social Settlement Work in the City of Providence, RhodeIsland.91 pp. Pictorial brown cloth. First Edition. Providence: 1916.

During WWI, Isabel Harris Metcalf (1854-1943), a Rhode Island pacifist, began compiling clippings as \”an endeavor to find in the written word an answer to the heart-searching questions\” evoked by the war \”in the economic, cultural and emotional life of womankind.\” Over the course of more than two decades, she collected and indexed material relating to the international peace movement, resulting in 50 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, along with loose clippings and correspondence relating to the League of Nations and the World Peace Movement. This is an important and classic charitable work benefitting Providence\’s Day Nursery Association and social settlement work for the poor. Recipes from local Rhode Islanders include mint-glazed carrots, French cookies from the chef at Molechunkamunk, Mrs. Charles Haskell\’s green tomato mince-meat, Manuel Lopez\’s Jamaica fruit punch, lemon shrub, (and several other alcoholic cocktails), homemade pate de foie gras for sandwiches (!), etc. Minor rubbing to extremities, else very good, with period inscription from one woman to another on the front free endpaper; bright, and scarce.

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