Queen City Receipt Book. The celebrated collection of prize receipts for desserts, ice creams, fruit ices, sherbets, jellies, puddings, etc.

Buffalo, N.Y.: Shepard Hardware Company; Baker, Jones & Company, Printers, 1889. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Index. Date of publication from testimonials at rear. Stated "Edition L 50-M", but evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook for the Shepard Hardware Company, makers of ice cream freezers, jelly, fruit, and lard presses, various hinges and latches, stove equipment, mechanical toy banks, toy cap pistols and more. The recipes include ice cream and related recipes for use with the "Lightning" Freezer, and jelly, catsup and other preserve recipes for use with the "Queen City" Press. Illustrations are mostly of various pieces of equipment or parts for same, with a full price list for the Lightning Freezer. included at the end are several pages of glowing testimonials. Some light soiling throughout; toning to edges of text block. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, decorated and titled in blue and red, rubbed and lightly soiled, and with one spot of varnish?, but still near very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates two copies (Peabody Essex, Virginia Tech)].