1960 The Alice B Toklas Cook Book Haschich Fudge recipe

1960 Doubleday Anchor Book

Cover Painting,The Cock and Knife, 1947, by Pablo Picasso, courtesy of Mr and Mrs Victor W. Ganz, New York. Cover photograph by Edward Wallowitch. Cover design by Diana Klemin.

This Collection of recipes from Gertrude Stein's lifelong companion has become a Classic - it established Alice as a writer in her own right and was first published in 1954. She lived, cooked, and kept house in Paris and rural France with her companion, Gertrude Stein, from 1908 until Stein's death in 1947.

During that time she cooked for and shared food with friends, including Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder, accumulating recipes for the simple and haute bourgeois dishes compiled in the book.

A rich mixture of food and friends, menus and memories.

Herein are fascinating reminiscences of wartime in Paris, the city that Toklas called home for most of her life, Spain, rural France, and America.

Just looking at this cookbook, you can tell it's an authentic book from 1960. 

The original price printed on front was $1.25.

Softcover book is in good, used condition.  The spine is darker from exposure to more sunlight. 

I'm not seeing any writing on the pages, tears - I did see a few stains/spashes on one recipe page.

well... the 1st American edition deleted a certain recipe...

The world-famous recipe from her friend, Brian Gysen: Haschich Fudge (aka hash or marijuana brownies) of which she claims: "which anyone could whip up on a rainy day"

The active ingredient in the fudge was what Gysin (misspelled) called "cannibus sativa" more commonly known as marijuana.

She writes:

This is the food of Paradise--of Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises: it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if taken with quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by "un evanouisement reveille" (an evocative swoon).

Obtaining the Cannabis may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as Cannabis sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognised, everywhere in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called Cannabis indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.

Food in French Homes

Dishes for Artists

Murder in the Kitchen

Beautiful Soup

Food to which Aunt Pauline and Lady Godiva led us

Treasures

Food in the United States in 1934 and 1935

Little Known French Dishes suitable for American and British Kitchens

Servants in France

Food in the Bugey During the Occupation

Recipes from Friends

The Vegetable Gardens at Biligin

Black Current Liqueur

Sloe Gin

Dublin Coffee James Joyce

Egg Nog of the Commonwealth Club, Richmond, VA

Brioche

Croissants

Banbury Cakes

Crullers

Laekerlis

Alice's Cookies

The Citrouillat

Gooseberry Jelly

Orange Marmalade

Farina Pudding

Haschich Fudge

Bavarian Cream Perfect Love

Birthday Ice Cream for Adults

Crepes Normandes

Dulce

Violet Souffle

Lemon Salad

Rossini's Salad

14th of July Salad

Saffron Rice

Omelette in an Overcoat

Canneloni

Fondue

Bouillabaisse

Cacik

Chlodnik

Clear Turtle Soup

Ibiza

Onion Soup

Tarata

Stuffed Artichokes Stravinsky

Green Peas à la Goodwife

First Picnic Lunch

Second Picnic Lunch

Barrida

Mussels w/ Cream Sauce

The Trout

Ray w/ Black Butter

Fried Oysters

Oysters Sauce Mornay

Gypsy Goulash

Frogs' Legs w/ Cream

Haricot

Rillettes

Cock in Wine

Duck w/ Post Wine

Boeuf Bourguignon

Chicken à l'Estargon

Gigot de la Clinque