Receipt book.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Etherington Conservation Center, Inc. (Firm)
Language:	English
Published:	[1853?-1870?]
Subjects:	Cooking. Baking. Formulas, recipes, etc. Cooking > Maryland. Cooking, American > manuscripts. Confederate States of America > History > Sources.
Genre:	Sources.
Local Note:	MSU: Conservation 2001 Etherington Conservation Services, Greensboro, NC
Physical Description:	2 unnumbered pages, 114 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
Format:	Manuscript Book

Description
Note:	Ms. Items dated at Melrose (?), Mississippi and at "Old Fields", Maryland in 1862-1863 are found on pages 56-58. Some items dated at Filston (?), Maryland. Includes additional sheets and slips (some folded) mounted, tipped, or (in one case) pinned in. About 40 pages are blank except for page numbers. Two unnumbered pages between page 55 and 56. Includes recipes for "Rebel Sugar Cake" (page 22), "Rebel Pudding" (page 23), "Rebel Wine" (pages 24, 58), and "Rebel Toilette Soap" (page 31). Most recipes appear to have originated in Northern Maryland, Old Fields, Glencoe, and especially Filston. One recipe was handed down from author's grandmother, who lived on the Melrose plantation near what is Natchez, Mississippi. Author may have lived on Filston plantation. Orignally was "titled" Melrose Receipt.
Call Number:	MSS 165 XX codex
Action Note:	MSU: Conservation 2001 Etherington.