Carving and Serving

How to carve every joint on the table, 1887 — from the woman who wrote the Boston Cook Book, cut by cut.

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The copy behind this edition was photographed in colour, page by page, from the Internet Archive’s scan of the printed book. Browse the leaves below — every stain, inscription and pressmark belongs to the object itself.

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