Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Cookbook, Manuscript MS 38.7, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1938.

Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm (M-1093)

Scope and Content Information

A typically miscellaneous collection of popular eighteenth-century recipes, apparently copied from English printed sources. Nearly half of them are medicinal.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Cookery--Virginia.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
• Recipes--Virginia.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Cookbooks.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Bibliography

Bullock, Helen. The Williamsburg Art of Cookery, or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1938.
Call Number: TX715.B84 1938

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