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

One volume (156 pages) containing mercantile arithmetic, Federal and English money tables, recipes, and technical terms for painting. Weights and measures table for alcohol, cloth, and apothecaries weights. Recipes included are for Governor Strong's loaf cake, Sally Lunn tea cake, syllabub, hartshorn jelly, paste (puff pastry), damson preserves, and wine caudle. Practical instructions include how to kill cockroaches. Several recipes on paper inserts including Bride's cake and plum cake with frosting. Attributions include The Virginia Housewife by Mary Randolph.

7 1/2" x 9 3/8" black and white New York Times portrait of Bernard Baruch as an older man, signed and dedicated "to Duane Diedrich thanking him for his good opinion."

Based on the names listed, these notes may have been part of an earlier attempt to organize the scrapbook. "Page 518-519/1. Powers,/1-E. Evertt,/1-Thomas."