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Preferred Citation

Cookbook, 19th century, Manuscript MS 81.10, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1981.

Scope and Content Information

This anonymous nineteenth-century, manuscript cook book contains recipes attributed to the Mesdames Elwin, T. Watson and L. Wickam. Includes recipes for meat, seafood, puddings, fruits, and wines. Also contained are directions for dying buff and for making cement. Several unsigned poems appear in the back of the volume.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Cookery (Fruit).
• Cookery (Meat).
• Cookery (Seafood).
• Cookery, American.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Cookbooks.