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Recipe book : manuscript, ca. 1859.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 391
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American.
- Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Traditional medicine.
- Wine and wine making.
- Fruit trees.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, English.
- Cookbooks -- Nineteenth century (dates CE).
- Recipes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by The Reynolds (Newburyport, Mass.), 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (29 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1859.
- Summary:
- Comprises medicinal recipes and prescriptions for a wide range of ailments, eye waters, hair tonics, antidotes for poisons; dyes, blacking, and washing recipes; soaps; insecticides; instructions for transplanting trees, cultivating and pruning grapes, fruit trees, berries, grafting and budding; and a few culinary recipes for breads, cakes, custards, puddings and wines.
- Notes:
- Written predominantly in one hand in the northeastern United States, several items dated 1859; some newspaper clippings pasted in; numerous items, including recipes, prescriptions, and clippings laid in, a few are dated 1862-1864.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 391
- OCLC:
- 225070782
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