Receipts.
"Manuscript receipts: cookery, beverages, medicinal, and household. Many are attributed to English sources, and many more are very clearly products of the United States (i.e., the sundry directions for producing a variety of Election Day Cakes, cranberry jellies, etc.). Two different hands are at wo...
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| Language: | English |
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[between 1790 and 1815]
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Steve Finer Rare Books: "This item bears impeccable provenance from a descendant in the family." |
| Physical Description: | 58 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm in box 21 cm + bound archival photocopy (21 cm) |
| Variant Title: |
Manuscript cookbook. |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
"Manuscript receipts: cookery, beverages, medicinal, and household. Many are attributed to English sources, and many more are very clearly products of the United States (i.e., the sundry directions for producing a variety of Election Day Cakes, cranberry jellies, etc.). Two different hands are at work here over the same stretch of time: the older doctor's cribbed pen and a younger, more stable writer."-- dealer catalog annotation. |
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| Note: | By Edward August Holyoke, M.D. Caption title. Binder's title: Manuscript cookbook. |
| Call Number: | MSS 234 XX codex |