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    Cookery

    Manuscripts

    Cookery including food recipes, some noted to be served to large groups of school children. In the back of the book are household hints and medicinal recipes

    mssHM 58282

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    Brock Collection: Journal and Memoranda book of Richard Henry Lee

    Manuscripts

    Record book that Lee kept from the summer of 1777 until the end 1791 with journal entries interspersed with commonplaces, to-do and shopping lists, and accounts. Brief journal entries cover Lee's political activities between 1777 and 1791 (e.g. the entry of Feb. 19, 1779: "Look for & send Dr. Franklins letter to Mr. Mazzei to Mr. Blair in Wibly also send Mr. Jefferson the song & receipt for rolls."). The accounts include those of sales, purchases, receipts, travel and other expenses (including those incurred during his trips to Baltimore, York, and Philadelphia to attend the Second Continental Congress); plantation records, particularly Chantilly and Stratford, including sale and hiring out of the slaves. Also included are some cooking and medicinal remedy recipes.

    mssBR 52

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    Cookery of the Elizabethan Period to George IV

    Manuscripts

    The manuscript volume contains recipes for foods such as rice dumplings and stew'd beef, and drinks such as orange wine and beer. The volume also contains household hints such as directions to make varnish, cement, and glue, and recipes for medicines such as the Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. Recipes are ascribed to many cooks such as Elizabeth Hammond's Orange Marmalade or Mrs. Zimmer's meal for two to three persons at a cost of four pence dated 1792. There are several handwritings. The book once belonged to Sir George Musgrave

    mssHM 58280

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    English cookery receipts and home remedies

    Manuscripts

    This manuscript includes recipes for food as well as home remedies/medicine. The author is unknown. At the top of page 10: "Pubd. in the London papers. 1767."

    mssHM 81085

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    Kōmō Chayuhō : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    Recipes, intake methods (i.e. oral, skin, etc.), and commentary on various teas and oils from areas such as Holland, Sweden, etc.; many names of the incredients, techniques, etc., written in phoneticization of original title into Japanese kana script; some illustrations in latter sections depicting instruments used in process of distillation; 33 pages; medicines divided generally between water-based and oil-based recipes; title on box reads: "Japanese Medicinal Distilling"

    mssHM 81220

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    An Apple a day : vegetarian cookery by doctors' wives

    Rare Books

    Abstract: Recipes for well-balanced vegetarian diets supplied by doctors' wives are presented in a cookbook intended for use by all homemakers. Recipes that seem rich or high in calories can be readily adjusted to reduce calorie and cholesterol intake by reducing the indicated levels of such ingredients as sugar, shortening, eggs, and cream. The recipes are segregated into meal topic areas (e.g., appetizers, salads, entrees, desserts); a separate section includes European, African, Asian, Polynesian recipes. Entree recipes are exclusively vegetarian (cheese and eggs, nuts, pastas, legumes, rice, grains). Herbs and spices, calorie substitutions, measurement conversions and equivalents, tables, a protective diet plan, calorie and protein RDAs for individuals and their contents in various vegetarian foods are provided. (wz).

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