Mrs. Austen's Receipt Book

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[Library Title: Receipt book (1835)]
Manuscript Location
Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections
Holding Library Call No.
small MSS 166
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
226
Place of Origin
United States ➔ Maryland ➔ Baltimore
Date of Composition
1835
Description
This 51-page volume was compiled in Baltimore, Maryland, around 1835. "Mrs. Austen's Receipt Book" is written on the verso of the title page. Pages 3 through 14 contain recipes for preserves. A recipe "To Cure Maryland Hams" was torn from a newspaper or magazine and laid in.