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...
Domestic Cookery. Manuscript Cookbook. Owned by Jane Lymburner, Bellfast. Dated Jan. 2, 1817. Original wrappers, hand sewn at edges. Included are recipes for cooking and medicinal needs. There are 86 pages. There is an interesting cross selection...
This full calf binding had the spine rebacked very professionally in the 19th century. There are 240 pages of which 140 are written. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 11 x 16.55 cm.) This English cookery manuscript has a bookplate showing the family coat of...
One of two books dating from the early 19th century in England and frontier America. These two volumes concern a remarkably diverse array of subjects. William Maud, evidently of Wetherby, York, England, b. 1787 served as a customs official in Great...
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...
This book was compiled by William Moulton of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell, located in northeast Massachusetts, 24 miles N.W. of Boston, was settled in 1653, incorporated as a town in 1826, and as a city in 1836. The book includes 24 pages of which...
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,...
This book has 170 pages of which 70 are written. It contains recipes for cordials, herbal remedies and prescriptions.There is also a handwritten invitation to the Thanksgiving Ball at The National House, Medway Nov. 30 1849. A laid in sheet...
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....
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...
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...
This handwritten cookery book has recipes and newspaper clipping recipes laid in. Generally, the recipes in this cloth bound notebook are accompanied by the names of the people who gave them. There are 78 pages of which 66 are written.
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...
Miss Caldwells Book. Manuscript recipe book, 1757 -- 1790. Included is an index with 11 pages of menus or Bills of Fare. This manuscript recipe book is inscribed "Miss Caldwells Book, August the 13 1757," later the property of Catherine Sparks and...
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...
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...
This manuscript is dated 1810 at the bottom of the page which mentions New York. There are 31 pages of which 16 are written. (4 1/2 x 7 in.; 12.5 x 17.5 cm.)
The recipes include: gooseberry Wine, current Wine, cure for bite of a mad dog, Another...
Receipts 1834. Compiled by Margaret Dyson Holland, Heighington, [England] July 15, 1834. This book is bound in paper-covered board with calf spine and gold gilt. There are 146 pages of which 96 are written. With recipes for Sloe Gin and Barley...