Louise Bowman cookbook : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Louise, Bowman, active 1930s, compiler.

Contributor:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, American.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, American -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Nick Malgieri.

Physical Description:

144 pages ; 20 x 13 cm

Production:

United States, circa 1930s.

Summary:

This volume contains 87 culinary recipes in addition to printed material from a cooking class, including information on cooking and several recipes. It was compiled by Louise Bowman in the 1930s in the United States.This volume begins with printed material from a cooking class, including required tools and equipment, rules, preparation and care of tools and equipment, table setting instructions, and tables of measurements and equivalents (p. 2-10). There are also numerous recipes clipped from the same printed material and provided in this volume with handwritten instructions, including spiced apples (p. 11), milk toast (p. 15), glazed sweet potatoes (p. 29), and nut brittle (p. 33).There are additionally fully handwritten recipes in this volume, written in at least two hands. Examples of these recipes include corn meal muffins (p. 41), milkless, eggless, butterless cake (p. 47), olive oil pickles (p. 56), devil’s food cake (p. 63), Pillsbury’s cake flour recipes’ two egg cake (p. 69), Ethel Keep’s quick cup cakes (p. 78), and Shirley MacKellan’s maple nut cake (p. 79).

Cited as:

Louise Bowman Cookbook (Ms. Codex 2176). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1427152543