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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."...
Survayer of the Meltings Gold Pot Book the 25 April 1814. It has the original vellum on boards with a gold gilt stamped family coat of arms on front & rear cover. There are 334 pages of which 122 are written. The first part of the manuscript lists...
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...
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 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...
The name Frances Collins is written in the front cover. 1825. The boards are covered with paper. There are 74 pages all of which are written. Some recipes are dated as early as 1825. Many of the recipes have the name of the person who gave the...
This is an account book of Gideon Howard dated 1804 to 1828 for a general store in Bridgewater Village, Plymouth Co. East Mass., on Taunton River and 27 miles south of Boston. Bridgewater Village was settled in 1650, and incorporated in 1656. There...
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 bookplate of "Wm. F. Murphy, Blank Book Manufacturer No. 27 N. Seventh Street, (Old U.S. Mint,) Philadelphia" is pasted inside the front cover of this cookbook. There are 128 pages of which 30 are blank, with 50 pages of recipes laid in....
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....
This is a handwritten notebook of M.E. Ludwig for her Dietetics class. Some of the recipes are handwritten in pencil and some in ink. Others are pasted in from cookbooks and newspaper clippings. There are several newspaper clippings of Miss...
This book is indexed and includes culinary and medical recipes. There are 40 pages of which 40 are written including the cover. Recipes include: Brown-bread; Beef brine; Blueberry Cake; Fruit Cake; French custard; Chocolate Cake; Cake for tea;...
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...