Cookbook Possibly Used in the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, Maine
Wadsworth-Longfellow House

Cookbook Possibly Used in the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, Maine

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[Library Title: Manuscript/Scrapbook Cookbook]
Manuscript Location
Maine Historical Society
Holding Library Call No.
Coll. S-7377, Misc. Box 258/11
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
20
Place of Origin
United States ➔ Maine
Date of Composition
circa 1850
Description
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.