Miami's First Cookbook
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Author: Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church
Title: The Florida Tropical Cook Book
Place Published: Miami
Publisher:First Presbyterian Church
Date Published: 1912
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Illustrated with frontis photograph of the First Presbyterian Church and Manse of Miami (still in existence) and of Pastor W.W. Faris (no longer in existence). Also illustrated with numerous ads for local businesses, including land for sale in the Everglades. Pictorial cloth. First Edition.
Miami's first cookbook, and one of the first published in Florida. With recipes for tropical favorites like green mango pie, candied kumquats, avocado ice cream, Biscayne salad, avocado soup (and avocado everything else), paw paw salad, crawfish salad, Mother McKinley's receipt for Johnnycake, royal Poincianna "beans" (with whiskey), Miami sandwich, potted kingfish, barbecued ham with bananas, okra, fried tomatoes, sweet potatoes in Georgia fashion, sweet potato pone, grits loaves, Florida pumpkin (steamed squash), ginger fritters, fig sweet pickle, etc.
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