Handwritten Recipes, English
British Cook Book
1824-1919
This cookbook contains three pages of handwritten cures possibly written by Mary Eversfield in 1824. The rest of the volume contains handwritten recipes first collected by Isabella Bethune in 1849 and later by family members in 1919, recipes on loose paper, as well as news clippings. The majority of the recipes are for puddings and cakes.
Purchase, 2011
A2011.0023c
Ida Morgan Recipes
1909-1913
Recipes recorded in pencil by Ida Morgan of Phoenix, Arizona. Mostly recipes for cakes and other sweets, breads, and salads. Also includes two recipes clipped from newspapers.
Archives of the Women of the Southwest, Purchase, 2005
A2005.0008c
Recipe book: autograph manuscript
1878
This manuscript book contains definitions and treatments of illnesses and also includes some food and drink recipes. Most of the volume is blank, with scattered entries. Highlights include how to clean kid gloves and make beer.
Purchase, 2018
A2018.0053c
Mrs. William Hart Carr recipes
1850-1870
This manuscript recipe book apparently was kept and passed down by the Carr family of Philadelphia. The volume bears a spine label which reads L. E. Carr and has her ownership signature, as well as a slightly later ownership signature of "Mrs. William Hart Carr, Spruce Street above 19th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.” Collection contains such recipes as Boston pound cake, soft jumbles, calves’ feet jelly, French fritters, mushroom catsup, whortleberry pudding, etc. The volume also contains instructions on how to pickle beef, fricassee sweet breads, dress a calf's head, and cook terrapins. Many recipes state authorship, usually either family members or friends. Annotation in pencil on one of preliminary leaves reads: "Cookery as it should be / by a practical housekeeper & pupil of Mrs. Goodfellow / Willis P. Hazzard / 190 Chesnut Street." Lucretia Eleanor Thomas was born on October 9, 1811 and died May 29, 1898. Lucretia married William Hart Carr, a life insurance agent, on October 20, 1836 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gift, Michael Heaston, 2003
A2003.0004c
Nineteenth Century Cookbook: A Manuscript
1860-1888
This manuscript cookbook begins with a canning log covering nearly 30 years, and includes a variety of recipes, with some signed by the various cooks.
Gift, Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2017
A2017.0019c