Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

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.