This is an easy cookbook with seventy-five recipes for delicious desserts.

The book proved a success, going through 11 editions until 1839.

This book serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning the art of pastry-making and sweetmeats. Eliza Leslie, a renowned American author and editor, was well-known for her works on cooking and household management.

We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.

This edition of Directions for Cookery was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Demonstrating the complexity of choices available to women at the time, this volume enables readers to see how Leslieês rhetoric and audience awareness facilitated her ability to appeal to a broad swath of the nineteenth-century reading ...

Eliza Leslie, frequently referred to as Miss Leslie, was an American author of popular cookbooks during the nineteenth century.

"Directions for Cookery" from Eliza Leslie. American author of popular cookbooks (1787-1858).