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....
A collection of 89 numbered recipes in a single hand, signed by one "Jos. Forbes, Dr.[?]" on the final leaf (circa 1790s). No information is available on Joseph (or Josiah) Forbes, though of course there were New Englanders bearing this name during...
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...
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...
Album 1815. Anonymous. No location. It has 88 pages with the inside covers written and some pages blank. This is an English Cookery Manuscript from the United Kingdom with one address listed as Edinburgh. There are prescriptions and recipes. Some...
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.
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...
Anne Bayne Booke [of Recipes] Circa 1700. The book has 224 pages in full calf with gilted original binding. (The frontispiece states "Ann Bayne Booke. This receipt book belonges to my Great Aunt Rachel Bayne daughter I believe of the above Anne...
Anonymous, 1900-1920. The recipes are written in several hands starting with "Favorite War Time Cake." The book lists names of family and dates of auto accidents, deaths, births, etc. and appears to have been kept by someone who lived in Madison,...
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...
Anonymous, circa 1889. There are 198 pages. Handwritten recipes and newspaper recipes are pasted into the "Annual-Report of the State Librarian" of Pennsylvania. The date 1889 is written in this book which is probably from Pennsylvania.
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.
Anonymous. 1820. This book, rebound in grey boards, has 250 pages of which 217 are written. This recipe book contains some 360 recipes--culinary, household, and medical--written clearly on about 210 pages. Recipes include: Pomade Divine-Beef Marrow...
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,...
Anonymous. circa 1770-1790 . This cookbook bound in its original vllum is indexed and the entries are numbered. It has 206 pages of which 50 are written. Recipes include: barley gruel, dry cherry's, lemmon cream, harts horn jelly, a presont strain,...
Anonymous. Circa 1824. The culinary manuscript, possibly Irish, has 40 pages of which 35 are written Recipe from the Dublin Journal is dated June 1824. Recipes include: to cure tongue, scotch eggs, green pea soup, to cure two hams, marinade chicken...
Combination of travel diary and recipes and receipts. The cookbook consists of approximately 51 manuscript pages, plus 8 later manuscript recipes laid in, and contains some 100 recipes primarily for cakes and other baked goods, including, Jane's...
Compiled by Harriet Dawbarne, January 1834. Liverpool. The book has 98 pages of which 78 are written. Written into the book is: "Harriet Dawbarne January 1st, 1834. Liverpool 18 Byrom Street." Added later in another hand is "My father and mother...
Contemporary binding of a collection of recipes written in different hands. Recipes are on paper of differing sizes, 10 leaves. Recipes include The Floating Island, red quinces whole, currant wine, buns, pancakes, two recipes for Collar beef, pot...