Place of Origin

United States ➔ New York

Date of Composition

1812-1832

Description

Written in a bound notebook (now in fragile condition), this book contains approximately 55 handwritten recipes. Most of the recipes concern pies, puddings, and, above all, cakes, including both simple tea cakes like waffles, dough-nuts, crullers, gingerbread, Indian Cake, and bread cake, as well as fancier cakes such as Lafayette Ginger Cake, Mountain Cake, Lord Wellington's Cake (with caraway seeds), Imperial Cake (with mace and rose water), pound cake, sponge cake, composition cake (with pearl ash leavening), coconut cake, and fruit cake. Also included are instructions for curing beef and ham and for making soap and lamp oil. An 1827 newspaper clipping inserted in the book contains a recipe for "Small Beer."