Mennonite Community Cookbook Mary Emma Showalter Herald Press 1988 Recipes
$34.99
Mennonite Community Cookbook by Mary Emma Showalter is the 1988 thirty-first printing from Herald Press, a hardcover with its folk art dust jacket and drawings by Naomi Nissley.
The jacket carries edge wear, small tears, and crushing at the spine ends, and the rear panel shows soiling, while the boards, pages, and color plates inside stay clean and bright.
The recipes are gathered from Mennonite kitchens and credited to the cooks who shared them, running through breads, meats, cakes, frostings, and desserts. Photographed pages include Buttermilk Biscuits, Fried Rabbit, Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes, and Baked Rice Pudding, with full color plates of finished dishes.
Details
- Item: Vintage cookbook
- Title: Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favorite Family Recipes
- Author: Mary Emma Showalter
- Illustrator: Naomi Nissley
- Publisher: Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania
- Publication Year: 1988, copyright 1950 and 1957, renewed 1978
- Edition and Printing: Thirty first printing, 1988
- Format and Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
- Dust Jacket: Present
- Pages: 494
- Genre: Cookbook, Mennonite and Pennsylvania Dutch cooking
- Language: English
- ISBN: 0-8361-1393-4
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
Positives
- Graded Good: The book is complete and readable, with jacket wear on the outside.
- The color plates of finished dishes stay bright.
- The jacket keeps its cream background and folk art border of teapots, flour sacks, and stoves.
- The binding is sound and the book opens flat for cooking.
Issues / Wear
- The dust jacket shows edge wear, small tears, and rubbing at the corners.
- The jacket spine ends are crushed, and the rear panel is soiled.
- The jacket is lightly yellowed with age.
- Page edges show light toning.
This 1988 printing carries more than 1,100 recipes and Naomi Nissley's drawings, and it suits a shelf of Mennonite and Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
Condition Grade: Good
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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