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Recipe book : manuscript, n.d.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Blanche E. Wheeler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks -- Pennsylvania -- Erie -- Nineteenth century (dates CE).
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Recipes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino, Philadelphia, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v
- Place of Publication:
- n.d.
- Summary:
- Comprises culinary recipes arranged in sections for cakes (including Jenny Lind Cake and Lafayette Cake) and cookies; pies; puddings; sauces; and miscellaneous (including pickles, syrup, biscuits, chicken salad, soaps, cure for chapped hands, and other salves).
- Notes:
- Inscription: Blanche E. Williams, Erie, Penn. on flyleaf.
- Label: Joseph Hufty, Blank book manufacturer, No. 407 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, inside front cover.
- Written primarily in one hand, mostly in pencil.
- No date, second half of nineteenth century.
- No pagination, many blank leaves between sections; a few leaves have children's scribbling.
- Binding: contemporary leather, hinges cracked, front cover nearly detached.
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