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Marieke Van Der Steenhoven displays samples of books from the upcoming exhibit “What to Eat and How to Cook It: A Celebration of the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery” at the Bowdoin College Library.
“Soyer’s Standard Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy,” 1859, in the Bowdoin College collection.
An inside page featuring handwritten notes and attached newspaper clippings on cake-making in the book “Housekeeping in the Blue Grass; A New and Practical Cook Book: Containing Nearly A Thousand Recipes,” 1876, from the upcoming exhibit “What to Eat and How to Cook It: A Celebration of the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery” at the Bowdoin College Library.
“Six Little Cooks … Or Aunt Jane’s Cook Class” is from 1877.
Samples of books from the upcoming collection exhibit "What to Eat and How to Cook It: A Celebration of the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery" at the Bowdoin College Library.
"High Living. Recipes from Southern Climes." 1904
“The American Woman’s Home: Or, principles of domestic science; being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical healthful, beautiful and Christian homes,” from 1869.