Candy Making in the Home
- SIGNED
- Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1913
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1913. [COOKERY] [HOME ARTS] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [EPHEMERA].
First edition. 12 mo (7 5/8” x 5 5/8”); 32pp; pale green pictorial wrapper, front printed with an illustration of a woman and two children making cany in a home setting, title and advertising promotor on front; rear wrapper an advertisement for “Maywood State Bank” and “Melrose Park State Bank”; fine. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1913 publication. A lovely small candy cookery book given as an advertising premium by the Maywood State Bank and the Melrose Park State Bank, both suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. This small booklet contains twelve chapters including five on various types of unpulled candies, as well as pulled candies, French candies, two chapters on candies with cooked fondant, a chapter that includes bonbons, confections and dipped candies, and a chapter titled “Homemade Cough Candies.” Later editions of this booklet appear to have been published in hard cover and not as advertising premiums.
Christine Terhune Herrick (1859-1944) was a well-known cookbook author and journalist. She was the daughter of fiction author Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, who wrote under the name Marion Harland, and the sister of Albert Payson Terhune who wrote about his dogs.
First edition. 12 mo (7 5/8” x 5 5/8”); 32pp; pale green pictorial wrapper, front printed with an illustration of a woman and two children making cany in a home setting, title and advertising promotor on front; rear wrapper an advertisement for “Maywood State Bank” and “Melrose Park State Bank”; fine. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1913 publication. A lovely small candy cookery book given as an advertising premium by the Maywood State Bank and the Melrose Park State Bank, both suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. This small booklet contains twelve chapters including five on various types of unpulled candies, as well as pulled candies, French candies, two chapters on candies with cooked fondant, a chapter that includes bonbons, confections and dipped candies, and a chapter titled “Homemade Cough Candies.” Later editions of this booklet appear to have been published in hard cover and not as advertising premiums.
Christine Terhune Herrick (1859-1944) was a well-known cookbook author and journalist. She was the daughter of fiction author Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, who wrote under the name Marion Harland, and the sister of Albert Payson Terhune who wrote about his dogs.