Charleston Tea Pot. In account with Samuel H. Wilson Family Grocer, 284 King and 93 Society Sts., Charleston, S. C.Â

Hastie, Mrs.

Edité par Corlies, Macy & Co Stationers, Charleston, SC

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Â12mo (about 4Â" x 7Â"), unpaginated [46]pp. First three leaves seemingly excised. Originally a blank notebook, ruled in a kind of ledger format, and almost certainly designed for customers of Â"The Charleston Tea PotÂ" to make shopping lists, and keep track of their accounts. Printed in the late 19th century by Corlies, Macy & Co Stationers in New York, whose label appears on the interior of the front wrap. The name Â"Mrs. W. S. HastieÂ" has been neatly inked on the front cover. This was most assuredly done by the Charleston Tea Pot, who would have either sold or gifted these blank notebooks to their preferred customers. In this case, the book s owner, Mrs. Hastie, has used it as a manuscript cookbook, in which she has neatly recorded more than 40 elegant and refined Charleston recipes. Among these are Crab Gumbo, Terrapin Stew, Caramel, Calf s Head Soup, Veal Croquettes, New Orleans Veal with Oysters, Â"Edge HillÂ" Cooked Apples, Claret Punch, Roast Duck, and more. On one page, following a recipe for French Dressing, Hastie writes, Â"Cooked dressing may be made + kept for such emergencies as unexpected company.Â" The last page contains a home-made remedy entitled Â"How to Destroy FliesÂ" (essentially a milk syrup with ground pepper in it), which she notes is a safe alternative to poison.  Per a lengthy profile in Charleston Magazine (April 2018), The Charleston Tea Pot was established by Samuel H. Wilson in 1873 asÂanÂearly iteration of the modern artisanal grocery store.ÂPer the article,Â"[Wilson]Âbegan seeking products rare to the city. Smoked tongue appeared in the store in July 1874, followed by fine canned salmon from the Pacific Northwest s Columbia River that August. Smoked and prepared fish became one of the shop s specialties, along with a wide range of cookies and crackers. In autumn 1878, the following types of crackers were advertised: milk, soda, butter, coconut, chocolate, zoological (i.e. animal crackers), oatmeal, Champagne, egg, fruit, and a hard Â"BostonÂ" variety." Mrs. Hastie, we can glean from her manuscript cookbook and her personal account at this upscale grocer, was a quintessential Charleston hostess, who was ready to Â"put on the dogÂ" at any minute. It s easy to imagine what was almost certainly a sizeable live-in staff being quickly spurred into action to roast a duck, and to make its sauce, on short notice in the event of "unexpected company." It was the entrepreneurship of Wilson and the patronage of customers, such as Hastie, that helped to create and maintain Charleston s enduring reputation as a city of refined tastes. In fair condition, bound in brown limp leather over stiff wraps;Âchipped along extremities. OCLC does not list any separate holdings for any similar volume issued by the Charleston Tea Pot. Presumably quite scarce; an excellent volume of post-Civil War southern gastronomy.

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• Titre: Charleston Tea Pot. In account with Samuel H. Wilson Family Grocer, 284 King and 93 Society Sts., Charleston, S. C.Â
• Éditeur: Corlies, Macy & Co Stationers, Charleston, SC
• Reliure: wraps
• État de l'article: Fair
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