Antique Children\'s Cookbook POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON 100 Years Old SCARCE For Sale

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A STORY FOR GIRLS
By Jane Abbott and Henrietta Wilcox Penny
With Illustrations by Franc Root McCreery
Philadelphia & London; J. B. Lippincott Company
Copyright 1925, First Edition

PLEASE NOTE: This is an exceptionally rare antique children\'s cookbook and offered here for the very first time in this marketplace. This book is so rare that there are no modern reprints and this one may be the only survivor of a very limited publication. Perfect for the serious collector or dealer alike, this little gem should not be missed.

Polly Put the Kettle On is an especially charming and unusual vintage cookbook in which a story comes first—and the recipes follow. Rather than simply presenting a collection of dishes, the book introduces us to young Polly, who suddenly finds herself taking on an important new responsibility at home when her mother becomes ill.

With her mother unable to manage the household as usual, Polly begins learning to cook, determined to prepare meals for her father and family. Her adventures in the kitchen form the story of the book as she discovers, dish by dish, how to put a meal together and care for those around her. Cooking becomes part of the narrative itself—the meals Polly prepares aren’t merely mentioned in the story: the recipes for the very foods she makes are collected in the cookery section at the back of the book, allowing the reader to actually recreate Polly’s dishes.

And what a wonderfully evocative assortment they are: old-fashioned soups and vegetables, meats, salads, sandwiches, pies, shortcakes, pancakes, waffles, tea dishes, desserts and homemade drinks, along with practical lessons about food and nutrition.

This delightful arrangement makes Polly Put the Kettle On much more than a cookbook. It is part children’s story, part domestic adventure and part practical cookery book, cleverly connecting Polly’s experiences in the story with recipes the young reader could then try for herself.

Today it offers a captivating glimpse into another era—when learning to cook was presented not simply as a household skill, but as an adventure in growing up, independence and caring for one’s family. A wonderfully nostalgic and uncommon combination of storybook and cookbook, with the added charm that Polly’s fictional kitchen can be brought to life through the recipes printed at the back.

Index of Recipes, as Listed:

Abbreviations * Apples—baked * Asparagus * Bacon—baked, frizzled * Balance—of foods * Bananas—baked * Beef—broth * Beefsteak—chopped—baked, panned * Biscuits—baked in camp, baking powder, cheese, whole-wheat * B. P. * Bread * Bread—brown—steamed, date, nut, nut—raised, raised—whole wheat * Breaded veal chops * Bulk * Cabbage salad * Cake—chocolate cream, cocoanut, cream, Devil’s food, fig, Flash * Cake—Foundation—white, nut, orange, rules for baking, sponge * Calcium * Camping Dishes—rules for * Carbohydrates * Carrots—in butter * Celery * Cheese dreams * Cherries * Chicken broth—creamed with waffles, fricassee, gravy * Chipped beef—creamed * Chocolate bread pudding * Chocolate pudding—sauce * Cocoa * Cocoanut drops * Codfish—creamed * Coffee—camp style, mother’s recipe * Commencement dinner * Cookies—chocolate, sugar * Corn—boiled * Creamed chicken with waffles * Custard—baked * Dad’s favorite breakfast * Dad’s fifth dinner * Dad’s first dinner * Dad’s fourth dinner * Dad’s lecture * Dad’s second dinner * Dad’s seventh dinner * Dad’s sixth dinner * Dad’s third dinner * Frosting—boiled, butter * Eggs—coddled, how to separate, scrambled, stuffed, test for freshness, to remove shell * Fats * Fish—fried * Gems—whole-wheat or graham * General rules for diet * Ginger-bread—with sour milk, without sour milk * Grapefruit—to prepare * Halibut—creamed * Ham—baked * Ice—to crack * Iron * Kamp chowder * Lamb chops—broiled * Lettuce * Luncheon dishes * Macaroni and cheese * Malaga grapes—to prepare * Marshmallows—toasted on crackers * Measures * Meringue * Minerals * Muffins—bran * Oatmeal * Omelet—cheese, ham * Omelet: plain*Onions: new green*Orange: juice, to prepare*Pancakes: whole-wheat*Peas: green in butter, in cream*Phosphorus*Picnic dishes*Pie*Pie: apple, blackberry, cherry, crust, lemon, pumpkin*Pineapple: sliced, to prepare*Pork chops: baked*Potatoes: baked, baked with pork, boiled in camp, cheese, creamed—a new way, escalloped, hashed brown, raw fried, steamed in jackets*Proteins*Prunes: steamed*Prune scallop*Salads*Salad: chicken, escarole, fruit, ginger ale, leafy, potato, vegetable—raw, tomato jelly, to remove from mold*Salad dressing: French, mayonnaise, pink, Roquefort cheese*Sandwiches*Sandwiches: beefsteak, chicken and celery—open, chopped olives, club, cream cheese and fig, cream cheese and fresh fruit, cream cheese—olive and nut, cream cheese and raisin, egg, egg and pepper, lettuce, minced chicken or tongue, minced ham, minced ham and celery, nut bread, peanut and raisin, rolled, sardine and tomato, sliced ham and cheese, spring salad, toasted cheese, toasted cheese with bacon * Sandwiches: toasted lettuce—tomato—bacon, tomato, to make*Sausages*Shortcakes: currant, strawberry*Sodas: homemade*Soups*Soup: spinach, tomato, vegetable*Spinach*Squash: summer*Starches*Strawberry: sauce, to prepare*String beans*Sugars*Tarts*tbs.*Tea dishes*Tea: how to make, iced*Toast: camp style, cinnamon, creamed, creamed with eggs, French, whole-wheat*Tomatoes on lettuce*tsp.*Tuna fish with peas: creamed*Veal birds*Vegetables: some things to remember*Vitamins*Waffles*Water*White sauce.