(Delaware) Mrs. J.A. The Home Receipt Book, comprising a Choice Selection from the Experience of Many Years. Outdoor ovens spice-infused fish

spice-infused fish

such as pull-tabs

Beef rendang

Inscribed & signed by James Beard to John Hudspeth on a page neatly taped on one side to the front free endpaper (the verso of which is a list of other books by Beard)

spent in a Virginia farming community founded by her grandfather and his friends after emancipation

(Delaware) Mrs. J.A. The Home Receipt Book, comprising a Choice Selection from the Experience of Many Years. Outdoor ovens spice-infused fishEdited by M. K. A. 50 pp. Gilt lettered green cloth. First Edition. Wilmington, DE: James & Webb, 1871. "Compliments of" elegantly written in ink above "Edited by M. K. A." Several contemporaneous manuscript recipes in a neat hand to blank pages in rear, for brandy peaches, cucumber catsup, pickled cucumbers, and sweet pickle peaches. A note in front of book identifies the author of these as their mother, Nan. S. Kent, whose signature also appears at