This beautiful hard bound book has a two-color printed cover. 11 full chapter headings with illustrations: Suppen, Fische, Fleischspeisen, Saucen, Salate, Gemuse and Kartoffelspeisen, Milch and Eierspeisen, Eingemachtes, Backwerk, kalte Susse speisen, Getranke. All illustrations are by Erdm. Wagner and dated 1887, C. Angeren A. Gosch, engraver. Printed poem at beginning.

It is very significant that among the handwritten books with preprinted chapter headings and pages, this is the first one listing as a chapter "vegetable and potato dishes," showing the growing importance of the potato toward the end of the 19th century.

From the 272 pages, some 69 are written in a beautiful even hand. It has several ice cream recipes and a recipe for the celebrated German ice cream concoction "Furst Puchler." On the very end of the book, in a much later hand, are a few recipes penciled in English.

"Mit vielem halt man Haus mit wenigem kommt man aus." Verlag von Moritz Schauenburg in Lahr [Baden]