[Handwritten cookbook] /

Approximately 80 unnumbered pages of recipes for foods, followed by 7 loose leaves of various recipes. 22 unnumbered pages at the end of the volume, dos à dos fashion, contain primarily medicinal formulas, including remedies for dropsy, cholera, and cancer. 47 unnumbered leaves in the middle of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Poe, Melvira Sill (Compiler), Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: Receipts
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Summary:Approximately 80 unnumbered pages of recipes for foods, followed by 7 loose leaves of various recipes. 22 unnumbered pages at the end of the volume, dos à dos fashion, contain primarily medicinal formulas, including remedies for dropsy, cholera, and cancer. 47 unnumbered leaves in the middle of the volume are blank.
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Signed and dated "Melvira Sill Poe, Augusta Georgia, February 6, 1833."
The "Cookery part" is partly based on The experienced English housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald, a popular and oft-reprinted English imprint.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) ; 20 x 16 cm + 7 loose leaves + 1 typed transcript (50 leaves ; 28 cm)