Anonymous recipe book
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of an anonymously written single volume recipe book. The majority of recipes are for baked goods, puddings, and preserves (jams/jellies), and preserving foods like oysters, nuts, tomatoes, cabbage, etc. The volume also includes recipes for dying cloth various colors, household tips like removing ink stains, and recipes for tooth powder, white wash, paint, soap, and treatments for various illnesses. Additionally, this volume includes advertisements and newspaper clippings featuring recipes and household tips.
Dates
- Creation: 1862
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical note
Unknown.
Extent
0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition
Unknown.
Processing Information
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed December 2015.
- Title
- Anonymous recipe book, 1862
- Author
- Kara Flynn
- Date
- December 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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