This mid-18th century book with beautiful calligraphy was written in one hand. Very unusual recipes such as: orange tart or pudding, Pennyrialls pudding, pasty paste, calve's foot pye 2 ways, lamb pye 2 ways, rabbit pye, roast capon with oysters,...
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...
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 has its original calf binding, with 166 pages of which 126 are written. These recipes, covering 94 pages, include metrical paraphrases of the psalms and extracts from Tillotson's sermons, written in three different hands. The most...
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 book has 250 pages of which 242 are written. The manuscript was signed at beginning and end "Francis Smith his Book 1704," and was written mainly in one hand with some later additions. Francis Smith (born 1687) of Amesbury, Wiltshire, compiles...
The recipes are dated 1934, 1855, and 1864. It is written in two directions; the first half is all recipes and the second half is odds and ends, mostly recipes, medical advice, and medical recipes, although some household recipes and knitting...
The manuscript is written in several hands and bound in its original vellum. There are 148 pages all of which are written including both cooking and medical recipes. Given to G. Stephens from her mother J. Bethune 1898, the book was started in...
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...