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One volume (102 pages). The recipes on pages 1-9 are labeled "Mrs. Goodfellow's Receipts," but whether or not this is the same Mrs. Goodfellow, who was the author of Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery as It Should Be (1865), is unknown. The recipes are for numerous types of foods, such as fruits, vegetables, sauces, desserts, meats, fish, and alcoholic brews. While recipes for baked goods and sweets predominate, the volume also contains instructions for pickling items ranging from "cucumber mangoes" to oysters. Some foods are represented by multiple recipes; for example, the book has more than one recipe for doughnuts, "cold slaw," and biscuits, as well as receipts for 25 puddings of various types. The titles also reveal both English and American influences, such as "Indian Pickle," "Green Corn Pudding," and "Federal Cake" (American); and "Maids of Honour," "A Trifle," and "Yorkshire Pudding" (English). The authors made notes for housekeeping methods and two medical concoctions, a general ointment and an allspice-based tea intended to treat the "summer complaint." The endpapers have pasted newspaper clippings with information about tomatoes; recipes for catsup, tomato pickles, and "Indian muffins;" and instructions for making a cement for pottery, a dye, and a cure for colic.

This single volume binder notebook (116 pages) dates from Eleanor Bruce Goodrich's time as a student at the Rogers Hall School, a prestigious girls' high school in Lowell, Massachusetts. This recipe book was likely for a home economics course. As well as recipes, the notebook contains pages concerning rules for washing, measuring and abbreviations, water facts, methods of cooking, directions for sterilizing jars, basic food science, food preservation notes, and how to set a table. Recipes range from soups to desserts with varying complexity including: Esmeralda cream, Persian sweets, Queen Muffins, Southern Mock Bisque Soup, Detroit Salad Dressing, Spanish Cream, Sugared Mint Leaves, and Cheese and Pimola Sandwich.

One volume (158 pages). Variety of recipes with many dessert and meat dishes. Dishes include: wonders, wigs, Turkish cake, lots of preserves, Richmond pudding, syllabub, ragou of eels, barbecued sheep's head, popemela, lots of gingerbread, pickled walnuts, many meat preparations, barberries, flummery, brandied peaches, and many puddings (such as quaking pudding). Some instructions for making household goods such as medicines, soap, and blacking. Some recipes pasted over others. Two more recent newspaper clippings contain biographical information on General Edward Hand and his family. Illustration: profile portrait of General Hand on front page with inscription "Edw. Hand, drawn from memory by [illegible] artist to the Hand family and late professor of drawing at Michael's."

Single volume collection of recipes (96 pages) in German and English. German recipes include one for pfeffernussen. Recipes in English include many desserts such as pies, puddings (Johannisspeise), cakes (Washington cake and black cake), jellies, candies, and orange fool. Other dishes include fruit preserves, corn dishes, griddle cakes, and several types of catsup (cucumber, mushroom, and tomato). The book also contains recipes for soups and main course dishes.

Single volume contains 87 pages of handwritten or pasted in recipes and household advice. "Receipts" include both savory and dessert recipes. Dishes include bops, fried sweetbreads, delicious cake, terrapin, save all pudding, Kentucky corn-dodgers, pickles, and olive butter. Variety of apple and rice based dishes including rice waffles, rice puffs, and rice cheesecake, and apple dumplings, apple fritters, and apple snow. Medicinal entries include mullein for consumption, pineapple for diphtheria, celery as medical agent, and cure for smallpox. Household and garden entries discuss pond lily cultivation, maintenance of white hands, guano water for flowers, and stain removal. One newspaper clipping describes the "Experience of a (Woman) Furniture Renovator." Many recipes attributed to people (ex: Mrs. Dyott, Sarah Lee, Carrie Farnum) or newspapers and periodicals including the Herald and Presbyter (Cincinnati, OH), Congregationalist, Evangelist, and Ladies' Home Journal. Several paper inserts including one on the benefits of ice cream for illness with an advertisement on the reverse for women's shoes and a complimentary carpet beater for spanking. A number of the clippings discuss the lessons and dishes taught during a lecture series by Miss Dods at Association Hall in Philadelphia.

Small (16.3 x 9.5 cm), seven-page recipe book of cake and pastry recipes, including Webster cake, Harrison cake, and sugar gingerbread. The attribution of this volume to Fannie Howe is tentative, based on an enclosed note stating: "I think this was Great Aunt Fannie Howe's."

One volume recipe book (220 page) with many cake recipes including Ohio, Portugal, Indian, Washington, Clay, Douglass, Kentucky, Carolina, Know-Nothing, Log Cabin, Pork, and several varieties of pound and wedding cakes. Also contains recipes for cookies (jumbles, ginger snaps, kisses), puddings (Jenny Lind, popcorn), and various pastries (crullers, doughnuts, muffins, mince pies, seven recipes for apple dumplings, Minnesota peach pie and preserves, many gingerbread variations, and several for ice cream). Assorted graham based breads and cakes included. Beer recipes include those for root beer, temperance beer, and other varieties. Savory dishes include meat and vegetable pies, dumplings, and instructions for ham curing and sausage making. Tomato dishes include catsup, pickles, chowder, and sauce. Notes for making various fruit wines, preserves, vinegars, and pickles (especially raspberries and currants). Many recipes are denoted "Rural," which is likely a reference to the newspaper Moor's Rural New Yorker (Wayne County, New York). Food preservation tips are mentioned (such as for butter) and some recipes are denoted by substitutions of a key ingredient (ex: shortening) or as "cheap" versions. Household items include discussion of livestock care, several recipes for cologne water, and directions for creating other household materials such as "sement for iron" and "indelible ink." Other practical recipes include those for dyes (some for hair, most for fabric especially cotton) for the entire color spectrum, as well as advice for silk washing and care. Medicinal recipes also abound including salves, liniments, diarrhea cures, numerous rheumatism remedies, and other medicinal preparations such as cohosh. The book contains several inserts (mainly cookie and cake recipes).

One volume recipe book (44 pages). Handwritten, with a few handwritten and printed inserts attached including a Farmer's Almanac page. Moonshine, mostly dessert recipes, vinegar pie, Washington breakfast bread, Federal cake, frugal cake, oyster pies, Virginia johnny-cakes.

Emily (or, Emilie) Scott Knapp of New Orleans, Louisiana, and at least one other author recorded recipes, household notes, brief diary entries, and financial accounts in this volume (roughly 72 pages) in the mid-19th century. Approximately five receipts and newspaper clippings are pinned, pasted, or laid in the volume. Interspersed throughout is other household information such as rules for cream tartar, washing instructions and soap recipes, a list of weekly tasks with meal planning, candle making directions, hair dye recipe, chimney and lamp cleaning, "curiosities culled from the history of England," gardening, a prescription for a Knapp child (Dr. J. S. Knapp, Terre Haute, Indiana), and silver cleaning. Recipes included are for tomato catsup, "floating island," and many different cakes. There are several newspaper clippings-"A Steamboatman's Cure for the Cholera," "Lamp Chimneys," "Bones for Grape Vines, Bugs and Cucumbers, Blackberry Cordial," and "Blackberry Wine." Additional sections contain accounts for the purchase of cloth and sewing goods (pp. 1-3), brief undated diary entries focusing on culinary preparation and household work (pp. 13-25), biographical information about Anne Boleyn (p. 27), plans for the construction of a garden (pp. 60-63), and "Extracts from the Southern Ruralist," which are housekeeping tips (pp. 65-71).