Common sense in the household : a manual of practical housewifery / by Marion Harland.

Owner's inscription on front paste-down: "Mrs. T Movre(?) Jackson". Includes 16 lined pages tipped in at end of manuscript recipes. Recipes include: Old Virginia corn bread, Raw tomato catsup, Pickle, The queen of puddings, Jelly cake, [?] bread, Hard cakes, Good cookies, Metropolitan cake, Ginger snaps 1844, Beaten biscuit, Tomato catsup / Mrs. Hale, Variety cake, Tomato catsup, Marsh mallows, and Margert's(?) molasses candy. Clipped recipes pasted or pinned to last two leaves. Material laid in: Newspaper column titled "Willyum's letter" from March 15, 1945, formatted like a poem concerning domestic help and housecleaning and making reference to Clarksburg. MSS 466 box 5 folder 281