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Single volume recipe book (46 pages), containing dessert recipes. Includes several variations of lemon pie, ice cream, cottage pudding, custards, and cakes. The volume also contains bread recipes including French rolls, biscuits, and Lost Bread, and a recipe each for an egg omelet and tomato soup. Most of the recipes attributed to people or the newspaper. Several recipes are written in a different hand--four from 1886 a "North Carolina Receipts Fried Apple Pie," attributed to Mrs. Carey L. Brewbaker, and a loose paper "Eggless, Milkless & Butterless Cake" from Mrs. Young. The recipe book is a marbled volume with a loose cover of wallpaper design, decorated with fruit. The book was previously owned by Eloise Schofield of Brooklyn, New York.

One volume recipe book (62 page), containing recipes for many cakes (Shrewsbury, Presbyterian, election, whortleberry) and puddings (bread and butter, Shaker's, coconut, Marlborough, Sunderland, custard). Other bread and pastry dishes include waffles, cookies, muffins, biscuits, and buns. One recipe instructs the reader to bake in shaped tins. Savory dishes include many seafood recipes, turtle soup, meat dishes of which several are pigeon, parsley butter, pies (spinach and minced meat), and bacon. Additional desserts and other items of note are whips, custards, blancmange, snow pancakes and "Eliza's ginger beer." Two medicinal recipes for cough remedy and syrup of [senever?] are present. One newspaper clipping provides a recipe for Taylor Cake and a paper insert contains a recipe for calf's foot jelly. The author of this recipe book is likely Jane Lawrence, wife of Benjamin Perkins. The Perkins Family Papers are held by the William L. Clements Library.

One volume, with 55 pages of recipes. Recipes for cakes, such as Lafayette, Washington (and pie), Election, Temperance cakes, as well as Brattleborough pudding and Iceland moss blancmange. Instructions for washing. Several newspaper clipping inserts and a Walter Baker & Co. candy-making pamphlet from 1900.

One volume (43 pages) contains brief journal entries on travels to various towns in Georgia including Marietta, Cussetta, Marietta, Macon, and McDonough often residing in boardinghouses. The writer often corresponded with a Mr. Currier regarding commercial matters. Most entries chronicle correspondence and financial transactions. Includes instructions for making graham bread, coffee, wagon grease, candles, lead for stoves, pest deterrence, how to blast rocks, and coloring for gold. With recipes for cures for snakebites, rheumatism, and cancer. Agricultural advice for livestock and crops. Some attributions to people or publications. One newspaper clipping regarding manure.

Small (14.9 x 9.2 cm), one volume recipe book (62 pages) containing entries for cakes and cookies with a smaller number of savory dishes ("chopped tomatoes, chilli sauce"). Several candy recipes include horehound. Directions for making medicinal remedies and household practicalities include furniture polish and blue dye.

One volume (116 pages). A Strawberry Shortcake recipe on page 76 is attributed to Mary J. Lincoln, the first principal of the Boston Cooking School. Includes a list of eight initials, all with last name beginning with "J", each followed by day, month and year dating from 1797 to 1837 at the end of the list, two sets of these initials are repeated with death dates. Also included is a list of nine sets of initials, all with last name beginning with "C", each followed by day, month and year dating from 1805 to 1844--possibly birth dates. Recipes of note include Clinton molasses cake, saleratus, Albany cake, rice ice cream, and bologna sausage. Also a number of medicinal recipes. Several newspaper clippings are pasted in, with instructions for making cement and medicines.

One volume recipe book (126 pages) with a handwritten index at the end. Indexed sections for the first 86-87 pages include soups, meats, made dishes, puddings, sweet cakes, tea cakes, and custards. Recipes after this point written by multiple hands and range from sweet to savory (some of them are attributed to people). Of note are recipes for Confederate Cake, Lafayette Pudding, Orgeat (Crème) and Walnut Catsup. Many of the recipes are drawn from The Virginia Housewife by Mrs. Mary Randolph. The volume also includes directions to make "West Oaks Blacking" and recipes for medicinal remedies.

Single volume recipe book (125 pages), containing mainly recipes for desserts or fancy dishes. Several pages at the very end include menus and guest lists for parties and dinners given from January to April 1883. Guests include Governor Crosby, General Ruger, the Botkins, Chumaseros, Popes, and Murphys. Recipes include cakes (Quaker pound, black, gold, white, Washington, Prince of Wales, mountain pound, snow sponge) and other desserts (Bavarian cream with fruit variations, snow pudding, nougat, Cox's gelatin, graham gems, pies, coconut candy). Also present are many recipes for puddings including velvet, dandy, puff, tapioca, and suet. Other recipes are for muffins, veal dishes, and a pain cure. Most recipes are attributed to a person or to "Montana Cookbook." Several of the recipes were written on loose pieces of paper. One newspaper clipping pertains to Montana's first teacher, Lucia Darling ("Montana's First Teacher Taught in Gallows Shadow").

One volume, containing 61 handwritten pages of recipes. Newspaper clippings pasted on front and back covers contain household advice and recipes, most of which appear to be from towns in the New England region. Many cake and pudding recipes including poverty cake, mock lady cake, Jenny Lind cake, railroad tea cake, Cape Cod cake, and Concord cake. A recipe for blueberry cake is attributed to "Aunt Mary Grace's mother, Mary Lamb." Includes one insert of a Thanksgiving meal article from American Agriculturist in 1948.

Single volume book (97 pages), containing many cake recipes (French, sponge, fruit, measure, cream of tartar, Federal) and other desserts (baked Indian pudding, jumbles, soft and Exeter gingerbreads, doughnuts, jelly, lemon pies and pudding, French puffs, cottage pudding, fritters). Savory dishes include buttermilk cakes, cornbread, brown bread, oyster patties, cod fish cakes, pastry, spiced oysters, batter pudding, tomato butter, mock lobster, and minced meat. The volume also includes directions for the maintenance of a home (mend china, kill bed bugs, whitewash, cheap paint, clean silk). Medicinal remedies are present for conditions such as frosted feet, bruise relief, sunburn removal, hydrophobia, wound treatment, hoarseness, felons, colds, bronchitis, chilblains, catarrh, cholera, diphtheria, and boils. Also, directions to make tincture of benzoin ("virgin's milk") to pale complexion. Listings for washing women and other doers of odd jobs are found at the end of the book. A fancy meal diagram is featured on two page spread. Mentions of an American Agriculturist subscription, with several citations throughout.