This book contains the name of Abigail Wellington Townsend and has 99 pages. Included are recipes for: A Loaf Cake; Beckey's cake; Gingerbread to bake in pan's minced pies; fish sauce; Almond Cake; To stew a calfshead; To make [forced?] meat;...
Alice Electa Pickard, 142 Park Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Christmas 1868. Notebook with 192 number pages, lined. Recipes in ink in a clear hand. Clippings and other materials laid in.
The inside cover of this cookbook and end of the recipes read "M. Ragen" & "From M. Regan to Hannah Wade." There are three pages of accounts listed in the back of the book dated 1759. Purchases of Indian meal and corn indicate American authorship....
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,...
The book includes recipes, along with some purchases, and the haying dates for 1838-1851. There are 31 pages of which 11 are written. (4 x 6 5/8 in., 10 x 17 cm.) Recipes include: Wafers, Jumbles, Diet Bread, Wonders, A light Cake baked in cups,...
Anonymous, but it may have belonged to Margaret Waters or Margaret Smith, possibly from Georgetown, D.C.The first lines appear to be a manumission document. Also included are expenses, presumably for Margaret Smith and paid by a third party. The...
This cookbook has 15 pages of which all are written, and it has hard cover plates. The name Mrs. Sparkman is written in pencil on the inside front cover, circa 1850-1870. Recipes include: Mrs. Adams mince meat, Champagne punch, Black Cake, Ginger...
Anonymous, circa 1900. There are 136 pages of which 68 are written. Reecipes include: Bread Rusks, Pea Soup, Imperial, Tapioaca Jelly, Ground Rice Blanc Mange, Wafer Puddings, Spiced Beef, etc.
This book has 28 pages of which 27 are written. Circa 1900-1920. "I think this was Debb's M. J. C." is written on the cover. Inside is written "Preface by G.P. B. This little book Learned in gastronomy Teaches its cook to use economy." Recipes...
Anonymous, circa 1900-1920. This handwritten notebook has 64 pages of which 33 pages are written. Some of the more unusual recipes are: Olive Oil Pickles, Cherry Honey, Pecan Sticks, Brown War Cake, Mock angel food cake.
This cookbook dates circa 1920-1930. On the cover there is an original color drawing of a woman in the kitchen reading a cookbook while working over her kitchen table with her pet cat at her feet. There are 28 pages of which 14 are written. Recipes...
This cookbook has 20 pages of which 20 are written. Recipes include: White Apple Sauce, Terrapins, Butter Biscuit, Clam Pancakes, To Fry oysters, Oyster Pie, Roast Ducks, Calf's feet turtle soup, To draw or melt butter, Drawn Butter, Gravy for...
This book has no author, place of origin, or date, but it is probably American, circa 1850. It is written in two different hands and is indexed in back with numbered pages. There are German, Irish, Siberian, French recipes. There are 130 pages of...
This book was compiled by Mother Armstrong for Helen, October 1933. It has a label saying: "Purchased from Strawbridge & Clothier Philadelphia." In the rear is pasted in: Wit & "Wittles" by Phil Baker from Armour & Co., a little 16 page pamphlet...
A collection of recipes in various hands entitled The Art of Cookery, circa 1760s, with the ownership signature of "James Doak 1762" on inside front cover. It is uncertain whether much, if any, of this manuscript is in the hand of James Doak, but...
This book was compiled in several hands, mostly by Benjamin Butterworth in Petersburg, Virginia, 1828-1867. Petersburg is located 22 miles south of Richmond. The city was founded in 1646 as a military post (Fort Henry) on the site of an indian...
This notebook was handwritten by Carrie L. Wirts of Baltimore, Md., circa 1917-1920. There are numerous receipts and recipes laid in, including one for Assessment and taxes for 1920. There are 188 pages of which 28 are written
This is an account book for a general store in Brentwood, New Hampshire belonging to Charles E. Wood, dating 1808-1811. There are a few pages written by George A. Wood dating 1854-1860. It contains 138 pages of which 78 are written, 33 pages by Mr....
This book is handwritten and has various Chicago newspaper recipes, including Rhubarb Crisp, Pork in Barbecue sauce, Prize pickled Shrimp, Maison Dressing, Fruit Salad Dressing, etc.