A Guide to the Cookbook ca. 1750 Cookbook, ca. 1750 MS 38.7

A Guide to the Cookbook ca. 1750

A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 38.7

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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Repository

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Manuscript number

MS 38.7

Title

Cookbook, ca. 1750.

Extent

1 v. (90 p.)

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access

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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.

Bullock, Helen.