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Economical cookery for the middle classes
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Includes household hints; recipes for Spanish, German, and Mexican dishes.
638742
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Manuscript cookbook containing culinary recipes. Handwritten recipes include those for breads, cakes, pies, sauces, puddings, desserts, ice creams, candies, pickles, meat dishes, and beverages. Contains newspaper clippings with recipes and one handwritten recipe on a scrap of paper.
642082
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Visual Materials
An album with 28 copy photographs depicting stations, people, and places of interest along the stagecoach route between Keeler, in Inyo County, California, and Mojave, in Kern County, California. The collection includes a three-page typewritten account by E. D. Grose, stage driver for Mojave & Keeler, titled "Last stage days : To the mines of the southwest, 1905-1906," with a summary of the stops along the line. The account is signed by Grose and dated April 14, 1965. Views taken along the stage line show stops at Mojave, 18 Mile Station, Ricardo (misspelled as "Recardo" on the included map), Dixie, Freeman, Indian Wells, Little Lake, Cactus, Olancha, and Keeler. Images include local scenery, such as Red Rock Canyon, station houses, post offices, and train stations along the route. The album also includes a photograph of a Mojave & Keeler Stage Line business card and a Mojave & Keeler Stage Line map. There is a photograph of an elderly Grose captioned "E. Grose, Stage Driver, 1905-1906".
photCL 164
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Manuscript cookbook containing culinary recipes written in one hand in a ledger predated for 1899. Contains recipes for desserts, sauces, preserves, cakes, cookies, breads, fish dishes, meat dishes, and vegetables. Includes mounted newspaper clippings with culinary recipes. Additional handwritten recipes on scraps of paper and printed ephemera laid in.
642072
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Manuscript cookbook containing culinary recipes written in one hand containing a total of 29 recipes for cakes, candies, frostings, gingerbread, salads, and a recipe for nut soup. Mounted on first leaf is a letter from the author's mother that includes a recipe for nut marmalade using lemons and rhubarb with a lullaby. A recipe for "Licking Good Pickle" in the same hand mounted on the verso.
642073
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Consists of a recipe for tuna fish casserole from Sugar an' spice and all things nice by Julia Kiene, along with an excerpt from The voyage of the Lucky Dragon by Ralph E. Lapp concerning radioactive contamination of tuna.
244708 no. 057