Place of Origin

United States ➔ Pennsylvania ➔ Philadelphia

Date of Composition

1864-1867

Description

The papers of Hannah Lindsey Sharp, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comprise a notebook of approximately 89 written pages (to view, click on folder 1 in the catalog record) and a collection of 70 loose sheets (to view, click on folder 2).

The only handwritten entries in the notebook appear to be arithmetic exercises. However, newspaper clippings containing culinary recipes, remedies, and household advice have been pasted upside down over the last six written pages. Of particular interest is a clipping on page [88] that references the tenth lecture, in Philadelphia, of Professor Blot, who ran a popular French cooking school in New York.

The loose sheets include recipes as well as correspondence and other material. A recipe for "Cup Cake," paraphrased from Eliza Leslie's 1837 cookbook Directions for Cookery, is written on a printed sheet for an abolitionist petition (see sequence 58).