Everard Green Baker Book of Remedies, Recipes, and Rules for Growing Vegetables and Curing Meats

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[Library Title: Everard Green Baker Papers, 1848-1876]
Manuscript Location
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library
Holding Library Call No.
41
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
294
Place of Origin
United States ➔ Mississippi
Date of Composition
1850
Description
Everard Green Baker (1826-1890), a small cotton planter in Mississippi, had at least thirteen children with his two wives, Laura Lavinia Alexander (d. 1860) and Sallie Fleming. In addition to Baker's 52-page book of remedies, recipes, and instructions for gardening and curing meats, the library's collection of Baker's papers includes his diaries from the years 1848 through 1876. Plantation life, social life, and agriculture are prominent themes in these volumes, some of which include descriptions of slaves owned by Baker, life on the home front during the Civil War, and attempts to work with freedmen after the war.