Anonymous. Circa 1750 -- 1780. The book is in its original vellum written in several hands. There are 230 pages of which 148 are written. The cookbook is indexed with recipes in other hands pasted in the back. Recipes include: to make French bread,...
Cookery Book. Ann Kenwrick, 1770. (1701 -- 1703 Account Journal) This is a 306 page manuscript of which 253 pages are written. (6 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.; 16 x 40.5 cm.) It is bound in full calf, beautifully written and has an index. The 59 page section...
In the back of this New England cookbook are references to the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican newspaper. Springfield is 5 miles north of the Connecticut state line and 80 miles SSW of Boston. This port of entry was first settled in 1636 by...
Isabella Carr. 1741. Also dated 1753, Margaret Carr. It is bound in full calf with original leather boards. There are 146 pages of which 109 are written. (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 16 x 21 cm.) It was inscribed by Margaret Carr "her book July 7, 1753."...
Journal compiled by Josiah Ingalls, owner of the Fitzwilliam General Store, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. There are 386 pages of which 374 are written. The journal covers the accounts of its customers who lived in such places as: Jaffreytown, N.H....
The front cover is inscribed "Herbert Beaver- This Book in Blank was given me by the Revd. Mr. Robert Rowe Vicar of Pilton (Somersett) July 14th, 1765". Later on the back cover it is inscribed "Edward C. Lowe, Cheltenham, Eng. Mar. 1939." There are...
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 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 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 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...
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