Cookery, American--History--19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Virginia G. Gray Cookery Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 00131
Scope and Contents
Manuscript recipes, mainly nineteenth century, and a recipe manuscript volume, 1830-1845, including recipes for relishes, jellies, puddings, and cakes. Also includes recipes for soap and home remedies. Additions to the collection (1999.32) include correspondence of Sally Gray (daughter of Virginia G. Gray), article, "Holiday Hints,"edited by Virginia G. Gray, handout on "Colonial Cookery," by Virginia G. Gray and her manuscript, "An American Colonial Cookery, 1607-1800," as well as...
Dates:
1830-1845
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Isabella Stuart Waller Memorandum Book
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Co2
Scope and Contents
Memorandum book, ca. 1850-1863, which may have been kept in Virginia by several different individuals including [Isabella Stuart Waller, George Mercer, and Mary Morris ?]. The volume contains some diary pages, resolutions for good housekeeeping, recipes, verse, and household inventories.
Dates:
1850-1863
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Recipe Book and Newspaper Clippings
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV R2
Scope and Contents
Recipe book, circaca. 1850-1900, of an unidentified person. The volume includes newspaper clippings of household hints pasted over Tables of Comparative Etymology and Analogous Formations . . . for Various Languages by John Lewis (Philadelphia, 1838). There are also loose papers.
Dates:
circa 1838-1900
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center