Overview
Cookbook including handwritten and printed recipes for savory and sweet foods.
Dates
- Creation: 1889-1897
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. The Sutton Island (Maine) Cookbook is in the public domain.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderThe Sutton Island (Maine) cookbook was used at a house on Sutton Island, which was donated to Harvard University in the 1940s or 1950s. The first page of the cookbook is titled "Scrapbook for the Sutton's Island kitchen." The cookbook includes handwritten recipes as well as recipes clipped out of newspapers and magazines. Recipes for soups (including sheep's head); croquettes; oysters and other shellfish; fish; various meats, including organ meat and tongue; salad dressings; eggs; puddings; cakes; pies; and other foods are included. A recurring newspaper column titled "Hints for the Cuisine" is included, as well as a description of the "Aladdin cooker" and an article on "Jewish cookery." The cookbook also includes handwritten instructions on how to play cribbage.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2006-M101
The Sutton Island (Maine) Cookbook was given to the Schlesinger Library by Harvard Property Management in 2006.
Processing Information
Processed: June 2006
By: Anne Engelhart
Updated and additional description added: June 2023
By: Susan Earle
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by Eliza Taylor and George W. Ransom Memorial Fund, Robert and Elizabeth Owen Shenton Fund, and the Fleisher Acquisition Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02223
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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