Manuscript Location

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Place of Origin

United States

Date of Composition

1848

Description

"Mrs. Jeremiah's receipt book, Mar. 8, 1848" is the first of eight volumes in a collection titled by the library "Brower family cookbooks, 1848-1918." The remaining seven cookbooks, most of which are handwritten, date from the 1870s to the early 1900s. Among the descendants of the Brower family was prominent environmentalist David Brower (1912-2000), who founded numerous environmental organizations and served as the first executive director of the Sierra Club, from 1952 to 1969. In addition to culinary recipes, the bulk of which concern desserts, the book includes a section titled "Medical Department" as well as scattered recipes for household supplies, such as cleaning preparations, varnish, and whitewash. Several internal references indicate that Mrs. Jeremiah lived in New York City. The recipes appear to have been written in several different hands. Because the manuscript has an undated advertisement from a New York printer for Mason jars laid in, it seems likely that the book was used at least as late as 1858, when the Mason jar was patented.
 

Contents:

f. 3r:     Biscuit Mrs. Jilin [?]

            Boiled Indian Puding

            Another

f. 3v:    Ginger snaps

            Kelly cake

            Calf foot jelly

f. 4r:     Sponge Ginger Bread

            Cup Cake

            Cup Cake or Crowlers

f. 4v:    Sponge Cake

            Another

f. 5r:     Soft Molasses Cake

            Graham Cup cakes Miss Hall

            Wheat cup cakes Miss Hall

f. 5v:    Mrs. Johnston's Doughnuts

            Aunt Seamans Jumbles

            Ophelia's Ginger snats [?]

f. 6r:     Graham Muffins Mrs. Dodge

            A Beautiful Hair stimulant

            Rice Bread

f. 6v:    Cream Cup Cakes Miss Hall

            Wheat Cup Cakes Miss Hall

            Rice Bread

f. 7r:     Sally Lun

            Varnish

            Pickels Mrs Simmson

            Indian Pudding Miss Macbeth

f. 7v:    Boiled Suet Pudding

            Sponge Pudding

f. 8r:     Crumpets

            Johnnie Cake

f. 8v:    Sallie Lun Mrs. S. Jackson

            Rice Croquette

f. 9r:     Lobster Croquette

            Carrot Pudding

            Prepared Veal

f. 9v:    Croup: 1 teaspoon of saleratus mixed in a cup of molasses

            Pudding Sauce. cold

            Sour milk cakes

f. 10r:   Pickeled Tomatoes

            Oyster sausage

f. 10v:  Baked Cottage Pudding

            Cottage Pudding with egg

 

Laid in between ff. 10 and 11: Printed ad.: "Directions for Preserving Fruit in Mason's Patent Jars". On the verso: "The Attention of Dairymen and others is invited to Leonard & Kinkaid's new screw Milk Strainer Attachment"; "To the Patrons of Mason's Jars, and housekeepers generally ... The screw top for pepper bottles ... The patent screw top for kerosene oil cans". Hyde Bro.'s & Co., Printers, 97 Maiden Lane, New York [Undated]

 

f. 11r:   Apple float

            Molasses cake

            Rice puffs

f. 11v:  Whigs

            Eres [?] Pudding

            Sweet Tomato pickel Mrs. Booth

f. 12r:   Recipt for Tomato Catsup Mrs. Macbeth

            Baked egg-plant

f. 12v:  Graham Muffins

f. 13r:   Mary Sherwoods sucusas [?]

            Liquid sauce

f. 13v:  Hard sauces

            2 Egg Cake Mr. E.J.

            Molasses Cake Mr. E.J.

f. 14r:   Eres [?] Pudding

            Batter Pudding

f. 14v:  Corn Bread Mary Sherwood

            Yeast Mrs. Hertzel

f. 15r:   Muffins Mrs. Hertzel

            Flitters Mrs. Hertzel

            Crullers – rich Mrs. Hertzel

            Calve foot Jelly

f. 15v:  Flour pudding

            Pound cake

            Plum pudding

            Railroad Cake

f. 16r:   Waffles

            Soft Gingerbread

            Shrewsbury Cake

            Coconut cake

f. 16v:  Chocolate cake

            Whortelberry cake

            Cream cake

f. 17r:   Ambrosia Pies

            Orange cake

f. 17v:  Pudding sauce

            [citrus gelatin] Mrs. Simmson

f. 18r:   Sally Lun Mrs. Gillis

            Yeast Mrs. Gillis

f. 18v Potato Pie Ophelia's

            Chocolate cake Mrs. Granger  

            Spiced salmon Mrs. Stow

f. 19r:   Crumb pudding Mrs. Simmson [?]

            Snow pudding Mrs. Simmson [?]

f. 19v:  Doughnuts

f. 20r:   Tomato Soup Mary M. Stephens

            Sour Milk Muffins M. Scribner

            [lemon gelatin] Louis Gilbert

f. 20v:  Mrs. Hassler's Corn bread

             Grandmother Se[???] Jumbles

f. 21r:   Mrs. Stanley baked Indian Pudding

            Graham Biscuits Marian Harland

f. 21v:  Mrs. Stanley's delicate sponge cake

            Bread-cake Mrs. Walbridge

f. 22r:   Almond Cake

f. 22v:  Chapped Lips

             French Cement (for whitewahs)

f. 23r:   Change [?] Cake Mrs. Walbridge

f. 23v:  Silver Cake Mrs. Walbridge

f. 24r:   New-Year Cake Marian Harland

f. 24v:  Green Tomato Pickel Mrs. Walbridge

f. 25r:   Corn-bread Mrs. Dr. Joy

f. 25v:  Staten Island dried Rusk

f. 26r:   Raisin Waffles Marian Harland

            Another made quickly

f. 26v:  London Hot Cross Buns

            Cocoanut loaf-cake M. Harland

f. 27r:   Cocoanut cake - small

            Simple chocolate icing

f. 27v:  Chocolate Caramels

            Pound Cake

f. 28r:   Pound cake N. 2

            Nut cake

            Huckelberry Cake

f. 28v:  Molasses cookies

            Meringue for Pies

            Ice Cream M. Harland

f. 29r:   Apple Tapioca Pudding

               Wine Jelly M. Harland

f. 29v:  Lemon Ice 

            Jamaica Ginger Beer

            Wine Whey

ff. 30-32 blank

f. 33r:   Sure cure for St. Vitus dance: Procure Barretts St. Vitus dance remedy from Oliffes [?] drug store No 6 Bowery New York

            Pad for fever & Ague

            For a Sweat

            Tonic

            Sore Nipples

f. 33v:  Cure for fever & ague

            Linament for a nail wound

f. 34r:   Medical Department

            Cure for Cholic

            Cure for a Sprain

            Cure for Dysentary

f. 34v:  To Keep ice in a Sick room

            For inflammation of Skin

            For pain in the back

f. 35r:   bannan [?] Ginger cake Mry Har[land]

            Mrs Farris's [?] recipt for sponge Cake

            Another.

            Dispepsia Wafer

f. 35v:  Aunt Sally's recipt for Jumbles 

            For raising blood

            Mrs. Marshalls recipt for Ginger snaps

            Ginger cake

f. 36r:   Black bean soup Mrs Rahls

            Muffins Mrs. Rahls

f. 36v:  Cure for constipation

             Furniture polish

             Remedy for Gout

f. 37r:   Recipt from N. J. Tribune for rhumaatism not to be used in the region of the chest

            Smallpox remedy

            Croup

ff. 37v-48v blank

f. 49r:   Crullers Mr. Marshalls Recipe

            Washington Cakes

f. 49v:  Graham Oyster C[???]

            Dough Nuts

            Ginger Beer

f. 50r:   Essence of Beef for sickness Mary Stevens

            Nourishment for sickness

            Tomato Catsup

f. 50v:  Brandy Peaches Mrs. Stevens

            Wine Jelly Mary Stevens

            Cup cakes Mary Stevens

f. 51r:   Ice Cream

            Biscuit

f. 51v:  Composition Cake

            Sponge Cake

            Ginger Nuts

f, 52r-v blank

ff. 53r-55v:  Appendix

ff. 56r-57v blank

f. 58r:   Gelatin

            Whip Syllabub

             Kisses

f. 58v:  Tapioca jelly

            Arrowroot for invalids

            Soda Biscuit Mrs. S. Kipp

f. 59r:   Cocanut Cake

            Molasses Cake Mrs. Imermans recipt

            Mrs. Barretts recipt for making bread

f. 59v:  Syrup for scrofula Mrs. Woods recipt

            To make soda biscuit Mrs. Kipp

p. 5 [=f. 60r]:   Sugar Cake

            Fruit Cake

p. 6 [=f. 60v] Lemon Cake

            Dough Nuts good

p. 7 [=f. 61]  Rusk [in pencil] Mrs. Jeremiah's Receipt Book

            Spruce Beer

p. 8 [=f. 61v] To Preserve Gages

p. 9 [=f. 62r] Milk Ices

            Cure for the Summer Complaint

p. 10 [=f. 62v] Cure for Whooping Cough

            Another

            Hoarsness

[Leaf missing between ff. 62 and 63]

p. 13 [=f. 63r] Cough Syrup

p. 14 [=f. 63v] Blackberry Mush

            To Preserve Peaches

p. 15 [=f. 64r] Soft Soap

            Indian Pudding

p. 16 [=f. 64v] Cure for the Summer Complaint. Blackberry Syrup. In 1832 was successful in more than one case of cholera

            Graham Oyster

f, 65r:   Starch Pudding

            Sponge cake Mrs. Taylors

            To preserve grapes

            To preserve plums

f. 65v:  Brandy Peaches Miss Shaw

            [Sour milk cake?] Eliza Jane Kipp

            [Lemon cake?] 

            Mrs. Taylors recipe for sweet cake

f. 66r:   Mrs. Simonsons sponge cake

            Katskill Pudding

            Mrs. Simonsons Recipe for Lemon-Pies

f. 66v:  Soda Cakes Mary's recipe

            Sponge Cake Sing Sing

f. 67r:   Muffins

            Pickle Cabbage

            Pickel Peaches

f. 67v:  Pickel Cucumbers

            Pickel Peach Mary Brown

            Carrot Pie

f. 68r:   Mrs. Willimons [?] cough syrup

            Corn Bread

f. 68v:  Scotch cake

            Soft Whaffels Mrs. Lyons

            Venison Sauce

f. 69r:   Indian cakes Miss Lyons

            Apple-Marangues Mrs. Gilbert

f. 69v:  Indian-meal Pudding baked Marys [in pencil:            15 minute Pudding]

            Johnnie-cake Marys

            15 Minute pudding

            Mrs. Simonsons Doughnuts

f. 70r:   Marys Lemon Pies

            Sponge Cake Louise Gilbert

f. 70v:  Corn Bread Broadway

            Pork-Cake Miss Shute

f. 71r:   Cough syruo Miss Corbitt

            Lemon Cake

f. 71v:  Quinbles Mrs. Imerman

            Soda biscuit Pudding Mrs. Imerman

            Cottage Pudding Jane Gilbert

f. 72r:   Corn-bread Miss Corbitt

            Tip-Top Cake Mary Sherwood

            Lemon cake

f. 72v:  Poor Man's Pound Cake Emilys recipe "This is very nice"

            Croulers Mrs. Wood [in pencil: very good]