Description
Hill, Janet M. Cakes, Pastry and Dessert Dishes. (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1920)
Duodecimo. 276 pages, illus. w/ 64 b/w photos. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth-covered boards stamped in black, white and silver on front board, black on spine.
Condition: Good, Edge-wear commensurate with a working cookbook, clean inside, definite lean to spine with crease to spine cover. Hinges uncracked and solid. Spine strip has some tearing but is still attached.
Janet McKenzie Hill (1852–1933) was a prominent early practitioner of culinary reform, food science and scientific cooking, author of many cookbooks.
Hill was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexander McKenzie, a clergyman, and Nancy (Lewis) McKenzie. In 1873 she married Benjamin M. Hill. Hill took up the study of cooking and its related sciences later in life: she returned to school around age 40, graduating from the Boston Cooking School in 1892. Fannie Farmer was assistant principal at the time. In 1896 she founded the Boston Cooking School Magazine (later renamed American Cookery). – Wikipedia
