This undated 20 page manuscript book contains 57 recipes for making cakes, puddings, custard, blancmange, whipped cream, and other items. Newspaper clippings pasted into the front page include recipes for numerous types of cakes and puddings. This volume is part of a larger collection of correspondence, military documents, financial records, and other items related to the Van Vechten (also Van Veghten) family of Albany and Catskill, New York, and Detroit, Michigan. See: Van Vechten family collection, Box 1, folder 5.