Total Abstinence Cookery: Being a Collection of Receipts for Cooking, from Which All Intoxicating Liquids Are Excluded

Published in 1841 in Philadelphia, the Total Abstinence Cookery is an appealing example of a mid-19th century temperance cookbook. During this period of growth in the American middle class, the importance of abstinence from alcohol emerged from the sober, moral beliefs of the new social class. Several cookbooks such as Total Abstinence Cookery were published as part of the movement. As stated in the preface by the author, merely known as “A Lady,” “[t]he error of mixing intoxicating liquors...