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GACON-DUFOUR (Mme). Manual of the pastry cook, for the use of the city and the country. Paris, Roret, 1825. In-12, half tan basane, smooth spine (Binding of the period). x and 288 pp. First edition of this collection of mainly hot starters: fish pies, pheasant pies with truffles, game pies, poultry pies with truffles, small pies with rooster kidneys, cold calf brain pies, fat pies with rice and truffles, etc... and a few sweet recipes: pies with pineapple apples, plums, grapes, verjuice, etc. Marie Armande Jeanne Gacon-Dufour (1753-1835), a woman of letters, a committed feminist, is also the author of several manuals for domestic use. Spine faded, foxing, small tear on p. 131. Vicaire, 379; Bitting, 174; Cagle, 196. Missing from Oberlé.
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GACON-DUFOUR (Mme). Manual of the pastry cook, for the use of the city and the country. Paris, Roret, 1825. In-12, half tan basane, smooth spine (Binding of the period). x and 288 pp. First edition of this collection of mainly hot starters: fish pies, pheasant pies with truffles, game pies, poultry pies with truffles, small pies with rooster kidneys, cold calf brain pies, fat pies with rice and truffles, etc... and a few sweet recipes: pies with pineapple apples, plums, grapes, verjuice, etc. Marie Armande Jeanne Gacon-Dufour (1753-1835), a woman of letters, a committed feminist, is also the author of several manuals for domestic use. Spine faded, foxing, small tear on p. 131. Vicaire, 379; Bitting, 174; Cagle, 196. Missing from Oberlé.
