Place of Origin

United States ➔ New York

Date of Composition

circa 1820

Description

The Margaret Poillon Garretson Cookbook contains over sixty entries, mostly culinary recipes interspersed with a few cures. The book is not dated, but since Margaret was born in 1793, the book was likely composed in the early decades of the 19th century. The culinary recipes include gingerbread, ginger cake, crullers, doughnuts, wafers, Indian bread, mush cake, cup cake, preserved apples, preserved citron, cranberries drop cake, tomato catsup, plumb cake, and soda biscuit. There is more than one recipe for some of the items. The book is small and fragile. A photocopy has been made. For access, contact Historic Richmondtown.