Eva Berry cookbooks : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Berry, Eva, active circa 1930s-1947, compiler.

Contributor:

Malgieri, Nick, former owner.

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.

Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Nick Malgieri.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (180, 176 pages) ; 22 x 17 cm

Production:

United States, circa 1930s-1947.

Summary:

These volumes contain 140 culinary recipes and were written and compiled by Eva Berry from around the 1930s through 1947 in the United States. Both printed volumes are titled “Recipes My Friends and My Own” and were illustrated by Louise Perrett and published by the Reilly Britton Co. of Chicago, IL in 1904. The first volume is bound in red suede covers with gold embossed details on the cover and a thumb index. This volume contains a significant number of blank pages (p. 2-4, 11-18, 20-30, 33-54, 57-66, 70-78, 84-90, 93-102, 121-126, 135-138, 152-162, 170-176). Examples of recipes in volume one include wholewheat muffins (p. 10), cream tomato soup (p. 31), escalloped eggs (p. 55), raisin fluff (p. 68), veal birds (p. 81), escalloped corn and tomatoes (p. 91), Mrs. Roylance’s salad (p. 103), salmon salad (p. 105), thousand island dressing (p. 108), lemon pie (p. 119), maple ice cream (p. 127), maple bisque (p. 129), sunrise cake (p. 140), potato caramel cake (p. 141), Devil’s food cake (p. 145), and strawberries cooked in sun (p. 166). The recipes in volume one are handwritten. The second volume is bound in off-white cloth covers with black, green, and red embossed details on the cover and a thumb index. This volume contains a significant number of blank pages (p. 1-2, 12-16, 12-28, 31-40, 46-52, 55-64, 66-76, 80-88, 92-100, 104-112, 121-124, 128-136, 140-148, 150-160, 163-173). Examples of recipes in volume two include baking powder biscuits (p. 9), bacon muffins (p. 11), split pea soup (p. 30), salmon dish with biscuits concocted (p. 43), eggs foo yung (p. 54), ham timbales (p. 79), raw spinach mold (p. 91), frozen cheese salad (p. 103), Betty Crocker perfect buttercup cake (p. 116), honey pumpkin pie (p. 120), calamity cake (p. 139), Mrs. Quast’s day rolls (p. 162). The recipes in volume two include pasted in clippings and printed recipes in addition to handwritten ones.

Contents:

Volume 1 p. 9: Breads

Volume 1 p. 19: Beverages

Volume 1 p. 31: Soups

Volume 1 p. 43: Fish

Volume 1 p. 55: Eggs

Volume 1 p. 67: Entrees

Volume 1 p. 79: Meats

Volume 1 p. 91: Vegetables

Volume 1 p. 103: Salads

Volume 1 p. 115: Puddings and pastry

Volume 1 p. 127: Custards, jellies, and ices

Volume 1 p. 139: Cakes

Volume 1 p. 151: The chafing dish

Volume 1 p. 163: Miscellaneous. Volume 2 p. 7: Breads

Volume 2 p. 15: Beverages

Volume 2 p. 29: Soups

Volume 2 p. 41: Fish

Volume 2 p. 53: Eggs

Volume 2 p. 65: Entrees

Volume 2 p. 77: Meats

Volume 2 p. 89: Vegetables

Volume 2 p. 101: Salads

Volume 2 p. 113: Puddings and pastry

Volume 2 p. 125: Custards, jellies, and ices

Volume 2 p. 137: Cakes

Volume 2 p. 149: The chafing dish

Volume 2 p. 161: Miscellaneous.

Cited as:

Eva Berry Cookbooks (Ms. Codex 2211). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1455218674