Place of Origin

United States ➔ Massachusetts ➔ Springfield

Date of Composition

1846-ca. 1899

Description

This cookbook is written in a leather-bound notebook of 270 ruled pages, about a third of which are blank. It contains culinary recipes compiled by Sarah Tully (1817-1901) and Elizabeth Lay Tully (1830-1915). Most of the recipes are written in pencil. Some clippings of printed recipes are laid in. Sarah and Elizabeth Tully were daughters of William Tully, who graduated from Yale University in 1806, received a medical degree from Dartmouth Medical College, and taught medicine at Yale from 1829 to 1842. He married Mary Potter Tully (1791-1853) in 1813, and the couple had nine children. Only three of these children were still living at the time of William Tully's death: Sarah, Elizabeth, and a son, William Tully (1829-1880).