The handy reliable cook book : practical and comprehensive manual of commonsense cookery
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV973.26.104
- Call Number
- 641.59 WAR
- Author
- Warren, Jane
- Place of Publication
- [Vancouver, BC]
- Publisher
- Thomson Bros' Bookstore
- Publication Date
- 1892
- Physical Description
- 100 p. , [6p.] : ill. ; 16 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cookbooks--1890-1899
- Candy
- Cake
- Pastry
- Ice cream
- Cooking
- Cookbooks--British Columbia
- Cooking, American
- Fruit--Preservation
- Vegetables--Preservation
- Object History
- Thomson Bros. booksellers, stationers and printers did business in Vancouver at 46 Cordova circa. 1888 and at 108 Cordova when this book was published.
- Notes
- "How to buy, dress, cook, serve and carve every kind of meat, game, fish, fowl and vegetables. Also giving plain directions for preserving, pickling, canning and drying all kinds of berries, fruits, meats, game, etc. and also instruction for making in the best style all varieties of candies, ice creams, cakes and pastry. -- title page
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Pioneer tales of Burnaby
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
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Making your own traditions
The new Galt cookbook : a book of tried and tested recipes
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV009.22.2
- Call Number
- 641.5 TAY
- Edition
- Rev. ed. entirely re-set
- Author
- Macdonald-Taylor, Margaret
- McNaught, Frances
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- George J. McLeod Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1898
- Physical Description
- 286 p., [4] p
- Inscription
- "____ Mrs. Harry Kolot" [Handwritten in cursive in black ink on verso of front cover]
"Jelly roll cake
3 eggs well beaten
3 tablespoon milk
1 1/2 baking powder
1 cup flour (quick oven)"
"Anna's Jelly Roll
5 eggs
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon water for
each egg. 1 2/3 cup flour.
3 level to B.P.
2 tablespoons
melted butter added last.
(moderate oven)
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on first page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Corn salad
18 ears sweet corn boil
on cob. cut off. 4 large
onions 1 head cabbage
fine and boil 15 min
then add corn with
2 cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons salt mix
1 small cup flour 1 tea
turmeric mix 2 tablespoons
mustard in cold water
add + cook for awhile"
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on second page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Sauce for pickles
1 cup vinegar (strong)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1/2 cup mixed spices
boil for any kind of pickle"
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on third page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Anna's Chili Sauce
2 ripe tomatoes large / 6
3 onions chopped fine / 6
3 peppers chopped fine
Cook together until soft
and thru colander.
then add 3 tablespoons salt
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoonful ground
cinnamon 2 tablespoons
ground gigner 1 teaspoonful
ground cloves
2 cups good vinegar
Cook until as thick as desired then bottle and seal
(Excellent)"
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on fourth page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Danish Icing
Boil 3 heaping tablespoons flour
mixed well with 1 cup milk. While
still warm add 1 cup butter, 1 cup icing sugar, broken walnuts, +
flavoring, Enough for 3 cakes."
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on verso of back cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cooking, Canadian
- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Notes
- Includes index.
- "Compiled by Margaret Taylor and Frances McNaught"
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Lochdale's finest recipes