By Grace Heidebrecht
Title: Manuscript Cookbook collection, 1650–1980
Primary Creator: Morse Department of Special Collections
Extent: 22.0 Boxes
Subjects: Cookery
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: Unknown
Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A
Additional Information: 51 handwritten recipes, many attributed to neighbors, relatives, and friends. Numerous blank pages. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper cover label.
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: Barnstable, MA
Number of Pages with Recipes: 105
Additional Information: 96p of recipes, 9p of rear recipes and advice, wine lists, etc. 3/4 Calf and mottled boards. Entirely culinary recipes. Some recipes taken from cookbook writers like Mrs. Parloa.
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: Massachusetts
Number of Pages with Recipes: 24
Additional Information: Miniature. 9p of recipes with blank pages at rear. Small blue wrappers, title written in ink on front cover.
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: United States
Number of Pages with Recipes: 94
Additional Information: 60p of recipes plus 34p price of goods and labor. Professional operation recipes for large amount of people, possibly US Army. Some offset from mold to a few pages. Period calf.
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: Oswego, NY
Number of Pages with Recipes: 21
Additional Information: Manuscript culinary recipes in neat hand. Period 3/4 calf and Marbled boards. Chipping to spine ends, rubbing to covers. Easily legible pre-Civil War recipes. Owner's name, place, and date on front free endpaper.
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: Moorestown, NJ
Number of Pages with Recipes: 60
Additional Information: 60p of manuscript recipes, about half from Mrs. Roer and half "Lessons in Cooking given by Miss Belden at Temple College, commenced Jan. 28, '94" Some illustrations of recipes showing technique or anatomy. 1/4 calf (replaced with electrical tape) and Mottled boards.
Publisher: N/A
Publication Location: Pennsylvania
Number of Pages with Recipes: 277
Additional Information: Large ledger book filled with hundreds of manuscript recipes, newspaper clippings, measures and kitchen advice. 3/4 leather and cloth with pictpral cover label. Anne Looney was born in Ireland but immigrated to the United States in 1880. Handwritten table of contents in front- accurate. Few loose pages.