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Recipes for foods suited for sickness, such as soups, broths, meats, breads, gruels and drinks, and jellies, written in blank composition book.

One volume, with 62 pages of recipes. Recipes of note include chicken pie with oysters and chestnuts, jugged hare or rabbit, Baltimore breakfast rolls, calf's head stewed turtle fashion, York biscuit, Federal cake, Liberty cake, carrot pudding, and Indian pudding. The "Cookery Book" section is mostly meats and vegetables recipes and the "Confectionary" section is mainly desserts and baking recipes. Letter addressed to Mrs. B.F. Dunkin, c/o Hon. B.F. Dunkin, Charleston, So. Car. addressed to Grandma from T. Pinckney Alston, Newburgh, January 31, 1869. Five glazed cotton flower cutouts tucked within pages. Several newspaper recipe clippings pasted on cover.

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.

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).

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 (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.

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.