Manuscript Location

University of Virginia Library, Special Collections

Place of Origin

United States ➔ Virginia

Date of Composition

ca. 1850-ca. 1900

Description

Written in a small notebook, in blue ink, brown ink, and pencil, this 83-page cookbook appears to have been compiled over a lengthy period of time, likely during the second half of the nineteenth century. Clippings and handwritten recipes have been tipped in.

The book contains the following recipes: Sweet Pickle for watermelon, [Chip] Pickle, Cake without milk, Vinegar Pie, Lemmon Crackers, Lemmon Pie, Untitled recipe, Jelly Cake, White Cake, Cup Cake, Carmel, Cheap Pound Cake, Quik Cake, Lemon Pie, Sugar Cakes, Pudding, Corn Muffins [recipe tipped in on scrap paper], White Cake, Lemon Pie, Ginger Cake, Cake without eggs, Soda Cake, Timber Neck - for hens, Sweet Pudding [tipped in], Lemon Pie [written on verso of typescript dated 1909], Ginger Snaps [tipped in], Kittey's Ginger Bread [tipped in], Eggless War Cake [tipped in].