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COLLECTION Identifier: MC 675

Recipe books of the American Institute of Wine & Food, ca.1690 - ca.1830

Susanna Pitts recipe book, ca.1690-1740. Digital

Scope and Contents Includes recipes for main courses, desserts, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, traditional medicines. Also includes Reverend Henry Homer notes possibly for sermons, and singing exercise in solfege called "The Gamut." Handwritten note inside cover reads, "Susanna Pitts was the mother of Mrs. Henry Homer wife of the Rector of Birdingbury, Warwickshire. The daughter's name was also Susannah. She was the mother of 14 children, and her 6th son, Thomas, was our great grandfather." Typed note...

Recipe book, ca.1700-1750. Digital

Scope and Contents

Includes recipes for main courses, desserts, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, traditional medicines. Also includes notes on household management, a page of verse, advice for married women on virtuous living.

Recipe book, ca.1794. Digital

Scope and Contents

includes recipes for main courses, desserts, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, traditional medicines; notes on household management. Alphabetized index in front of volume. Some recipes transcribed from the Chester Chronicle. Stamp inside back cover reads, "Marqueta C. Huyck, Wayne University, Detroit 1, Michigan."

Mrs. S. Morgan's recipe book, ca.1830. Digital

Scope and Contents

Includes recipes for main courses, desserts, alcoholic beverages; notes on household management.