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Mabel Clarke's cookbook scrapbook and school lesson book : manuscript

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Description: Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing mounted newspaper clippings with culinary recipes and an index. Notebook appears to have been re-purposed twice. The front endpapers and pages [1]-[4] are an index. On pages [5]-[27] is a handwritten Gospel according to St. Matthew with marginal notes. Pages [28]-[46] are filled with newspaper clippings with culinary recipes mounted over what appears to be handwritten school lessons in grammar, math and geography. Pages [47]-[158] contain the remainder of the handwritten lessons. Additional newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, and culinary recipes on scraps of paper laid in. Also included is a reprint of an albumen photograph with a date on the verso of 1892 (removed to PF).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1870-approximately 1899.
Call number: 642095
Creator: Clarke, Mabel R(Opens in new tab)

Cookbook scrapbook : manuscript

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Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing handwritten culinary recipes. Recipes include individual dishes such as English Monkey, a dish close to Welsh Rarebit; World's Fair Cake; Snow; and Mock Chicken. Other recipes include those for cakes, puddings, meat dishes, egg dishes, salad dressings, breads, and sauces. Contains numerous mounted newspaper clippings with culinary recipes. Additional newspaper clippings and handwritten culinary recipes on scraps of paper laid in.

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Lottie Gertrude Priest's commonplace book and cookbook : manuscript

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Commonplace book containing a tabulated name index; an accounts ledger, 7 pages of newspaper clippings with poetry, advice, remedies, and maxims; 7 pages of handwritten poetry; a 2 page register of births and marriages; 10 pages of newspaper clippings with household recipes and culinary recipes; 12 pages of handwritten poetry, a 5 page register of marriages, deaths, and births; 46 pages of culinary recipes; and 2 pages of handwritten poetry. Additional newspaper clippings laid in (removed to PF).

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Mrs. Willard's cookbook scrapbook : manuscript

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Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing handwritten culinary recipes and mounted newspaper clippings and printed ephemera with culinary recipes and general hygiene, medicinal, housekeeping and gardening tips. Handwritten recipes include: Mustard pickle, Emily Bacon's Election Cake, Ham brine, and California Cake. Some clippings are mounted over earlier ledger entries.

642096

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Mrs. J.C. Christensen's cookbook scrapbook : manuscript

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Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing culinary recipes entirely on mounted newspaper clippings and printed ephemera. The clippings are mounted in a blank recipes book with index on page [1]-[12].

642097

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Cookbook scrapbook : manuscript

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Manuscript cookbook containing mostly culinary recipes written in one hand, containing a total of 200 recipes for appetizers, meats, vegetables, rice, pasta, soups and salads. Also contains numerous mounted newspaper clippings and printed ephemera with culinary recipes, medicinal recipes, and household hints. Additional handwritten recipes on scraps of paper, clippings, and printed ephemera laid in.

642074

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Cookbook scrapbook : manuscript

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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

Mabel Clarke's cookbook scrapbook and school lesson book : manuscript

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