Manuscript Location

UC San Diego, American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection

Place of Origin

United States ➔ Tennessee ➔ Nashville

Date of Composition

recipes ca. 1863

Description

This 168-page book was originally a math primer consisting of mathematical concepts and word problems dealing with tea, bolts of cloth, fish, sailing vessels, and bread. It was compiled by Mary Louisa Lientz, a student at the Nashville Female Academy, sometime between 1816 and 1865, when the academy was in operation. Recipes for foods and remedies are written on the verso of the leaves, including recipes for pickles, currant jelly, doughnuts, strawberry ice cream, Harrison cakes, ladyfingers, Sally Lunn, and crulls [crullers]. Some recipes are attributed to Jane Melton. One recipe bears the date "1863 June." The library catalog record does not indicate if the recipes appear to be in the same hand as that of the primer.