Item #H29261 Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH
Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH

Late 19th century "Household Treasury" book of handwritten recipes, possibly Columbus OH

Hardcover. 8.5 x 7 inches, the book itself published in 1870, titled "Household Treasury" (Philadelphia: Claston, Remsen & Haffelfinger), with 256 pp. in basic divisions (soups, vegetables, game & poultry, etc.) to be filled in by its owner. Condition is good with recent cloth over the deteriorating leather spine, light strengthening to inner hinges. The person who owned this did not fill it up much with recipes: a laid in recipe dated 1897 for lemon sherbet from a Linda M. Sherwood, a recipe for pickles written on the back of a 1907 Columbus OH coal mining company price list sheet, a 2pp. recipe for tomato "Katchup," under Salads, recipes for French dressing, chicken salad, "cold slaw" from Mrs. Alfred Adams, and under "Bread. Breakfast & Tea Cakes," recipes for waffles, muffins, griddle cakes, buckwheat cakes, Eliza's griddle cakes, Parker House rolls [these were invented at the Parker House hotel in Boston in the 1870s and found their way into Fannie Farmer's cookbook by 1896], Mary's Pop Overs, corn bread, Boston brown bread, Mrs. Breed's sponge cake, Mary's doughnuts, Miss Tyler's doughnuts, Mrs. Ashman's doughnuts, Mrs. White's doughnuts, dough cake, loaf cake, molasses cake or ginger bread (supplied by "Sister Linda, 1906"), and under "Fancy Cakes," there is Mary's jelly cake, Mrs. Daskam's cake, Federal cake, Miss Tyler's corn starch cake, Miss Tyler's cake, Sarah's spice cake, Linda's gold and silver cake, orange cake, many other cakes: fruit, custard, pound, coffee, chocolate (1908), sponge, Miss Taylor's cream cake, Dora's sunshine cake, nut cake, Mrs. Basllington's Angel's Food cake [Aug. 16, 1889], Mrs. Ball's angel's food cake from the same date, auntie's lemon pie...under "Puddings" there are several recipes including one for strawberry blanc mange by Miss Sarah Clark of Northampton, fig pudding, and lemon ice. Under "Preserves, Marmalades and Jellies" there are recipes for quince jelly, wine jelly, spiced currants, orange marmalade, cherry butter, tutti frutti jelly, spice grapes, and another one for orange marmalade from Gertrude Smith, 1910. Under "Pickles" there's a lengthy recipe for cucumber pickles, one for French pickles from Mrs. St. John, watermelon pickles, another one for cucumber pickles from Aunt Harriet, August 1897, and tomato pickles by Mrs. Hall from 1888. Under beverages there's one for Small Beer from Isaac Humphreys in Alliance (a little town in NE Ohio). There are a few other domestic chemical recipes for "renewing paint," washing blankets, curing "currant worms and nose bugs" (gross!), remedies for bee stings, poison ivy, and corns. But the great majority of the pages are blank. Perhaps 30-40 pp. filled in., plus several clippings from magazines or papers. Good. Item #H29261

Price: $100.00

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