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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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.
This manuscript of 102 pages is written in three or four (probably feminine) hands. It contains numerous recipes for the table (including some for wine), accounts of cash received daily 1689-90 and accounts for purchases of food and household...
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...
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,...