The book, written in several hands, is inscribed inside the upper cover: "Mary Chaytor's Book, Spenithorne [Spennithorne, York?] June 1804." A few entries are dated between 1823 and 1837. It is bound in contemporary parchment. There are 520 pages...
This book bound in its original vellum has 168 pages of which 61 are written. (6 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.; 16 x 19.5 cm.) Recipes include: sauce for cold game, white sauce for carp, potato pudding, how to pickle beef, how to dye yellow, recipe for the gout,...
This book is board with calf spine. It has a bookplate for the book seller inside the front cover: John Stacy, printer, bookseller, binder, and stationer, No. 5, Gentlemen's Walk, Old Haymarket, Norwich [England] There are 119 pages all of which...
Handwritten manuscript of medical and other recipes. Emily Netuzed [?], August 1874. This book is bound in green leather, 8 vo. 184 pages, all written in one hand. (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 19 x 24 cm.) The recipes include Victoria sandwiches and recipes...
Handwritten book of recipes, 97 hand-numbered pages with two laid-in sheets. Gift of Ann Ziegert. Recipes include Mrs. Goldsby's Receipt Italian Cream, Rice Wafles, Pot au Feu, Sago Pudding, A Good Custard, Connecticut Bannock, Potato Cakes, Fresh...
One of two books dating from the early 19th century in England and frontier America. These two volumes concern a remarkably diverse array of subjects. William Maud, evidently of Wetherby, York, England, b. 1787 served as a customs official in Great...
Folio. 195 pages. Nineteenth century cloth and boards, leather title label on spine. Holograph recipe book begun by Mary Carnegie in 1804 and picked up by Susan Gillespie in 1840 and continued by a few other Gillespies until 1905. All but the last...
Primarily written in one hand, the front section of this book contains recipes for cakes and pastries, while the middle is dedicated to sauces, pickles and preserves, and the rear to household cleaning and health. Some laid in items, one a letter...
This cookbook manuscript is comprised of one manscript sewn inside another. The first, dated 1824, is in a very neat hand. The second, in a different hand, includes the dates 1851 and 1855. Both sections of the book contain many recipes for cakes,...
This manuscript recipe book appears to have begun its life in England where it served as a practice book for handwriting, mathematics and money conversions. It then continues in a small but neat hand to document various medical and household...
A very appealing manuscript cookbook, accomplished in a attractive,prefectly legible hand, containing many interesting recipes such as "To Make Marmalace of Quinces," To Jug a Hare," "Birds in Capuchins," "To Dress Necks of Mutton the West Indian...
The recipes include "to colour a room green," cures for whooping cough, toothache, typhus, warts, corns, consumption, a strengthening potion, antibilious pills, and a remedy for rheumatism. There are occasional drink-related resipcies including...
An attractive cookery manuscript, written mostly in one hand. Recipes include, among others, "To make Mushroom Powder, " A Receipt to pickle White Wall-nuts," "To collor A Pigg," "To make Stoughton's Drops," "For Scotch Collops." Near the end of...
This interestinig manuscript book is a receipt book in both senses of the word. It starts out with a definitionof "receipt" in the accounting sense, executed in a very neat and studied hand, followed by examples of receipts. After ten pages the...
Domestic Cookery. Manuscript Cookbook. Owned by Jane Lymburner, Bellfast. Dated Jan. 2, 1817. Original wrappers, hand sewn at edges. Included are recipes for cooking and medicinal needs. There are 86 pages. There is an interesting cross selection...
196 manuscript pages of cookery recipes, all densely written in one hand. Seeminly copied from other manuscript books she had kept, in order to have everything in one place. Each section has an index list of recipes placed before the full recipes....
This full calf binding had the spine rebacked very professionally in the 19th century. There are 240 pages of which 140 are written. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 11 x 16.55 cm.) This English cookery manuscript has a bookplate showing the family coat of...
A neatly assembled manuscript recipe book, interspersed with pasted-in newspaper clippings. The only indication of place comes from the clipings, with Hartford and Rutland both mentioned. The well-indexed book covers more subject areas than most...
One of ten handwritten notebooks belonging to Elvia Wolfe, New York (circa: 1820 and 1821). Miss Wolfe's books are mostly records of Griscom lectures on chemistry, the solar system and other sciences. Each notebook is in flexible boards with thread...
One of ten handwritten notebooks belonging to Elvia Wolfe, New York (circa: 1820 and 1821). Miss Wolfe's books are mostly records of Griscom lectures on chemistry, the solar system and other sciences. Each notebook is in flexible boards with thread...