Recipe book, [ca.1870-ca.1890].

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Recipe book, [ca.1870-ca.1890].

Consists of recipes for food and household preparations; some 18 pages of handwritten recipes, with scores of clippings from neswpapers laid in. Most of the recipes are for cakes, puddings, and other desserts, but seem to be in no particular order. The household preparations run the gamut from cures for croup and smallpox to removing stains. Includes one page "List of Apple Trees gotten in 1869," and list of bed linens "brought from home when I went to housekeeping."

1 v. (23 p.) ; 16 cm.84 pieces laid in ; 66 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6744205

Winterthur Library

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Perkins, Mary (Mary Elizabeth), 1912-

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Mary Perkins, apparently a resident of Virginia in the late nineteenth century, is mentioned on one of the items laid in this volume. Two other notes are addressed to "Mrs. Perkins" and one to "Mrs. Ellis Perkins." From the description of Recipe book, [ca.1870-ca.1890]. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122516819 ...