Manuscript Location

Winterthur Library, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscript and Printed Ephemera

Place of Origin

United States

Date of Composition

ca. 1830-ca. 1870

Description

This book contains about forty handwritten recipes for cakes, three for breads, and one each for tapioca cream and mince pies. About ten recipes have been laid in, mostly for puddings. There is also a single medical recipe, a cure for dyspepsia. All of the recipes are indexed in a database available at the library. Although most of the recipes in the book were current in the 1830s and even earlier, according with the library's dating of the manuscript, the book's handwritten recipes for tapioca cream and Parker House are of the 1860s or later. 

One recipe is signed Mrs. Priscilla Lane, Hudson, N.Y. The book was made by sewing large folded sheets of paper to marbled paper covers; some of the pages are uncut.