Cookbook Possibly Used in the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, Maine
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[Library Title: Manuscript/Scrapbook Cookbook]
Holding Library Call No.
Coll. S-7377, Misc. Box 258/11Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
20Place of Origin
United States ➔ MaineDate of Composition
circa 1850Description
This cookbook contains some handwritten recipes but mostly consists of newspaper clippings pinned or glued onto pages. The book may have been used in the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, in Portland, Maine, where the famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) grew up.