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Cooking, American.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Charlotte Bruce CAU recipes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070785708]
Identifier: 31-6-4009
Scope and content

Recipe sheets from CAU cooking class taught by Charlotte Bruce and a collection of other recipes including Cornell chicken.

Dates: 1984-1999.

Department of Anthropology cookbooks

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924088358878]
Identifier: 14-25-3305
Scope and content

Cookbooks issued by the Cornell Anthropology Department in 1970 and 1973.

Dates: 1970-1973.

Diane Scrima Collection of Recipe Booklets and Cookbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 8568
Abstract

The collection primarily consists of recipe pamphlets and cookbooks produced by General Foods, with a few by other corporations.

Dates: 1936-1983.

Receipt book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065349106]
Identifier: 6386
Scope and content

Ninety recipes in at least two different hands, with four newspaper clippings pasted inside of the wrappers. All of the recipes are very legible and include: desserts, stewed eels, calf's foot jelly, pickled walnuts, several wines and mead. One cake recipe has the price $3.50 attached.

Dates: 1790-1850.

Receipt book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065349106]
Identifier: 6385
Scope and content

A receipt book of 94 food recipes and four medicinal recipes; all but the final leaves written in a handsome calligraphic hand. Recipes include desserts, quick breads, some meat dishes, drinks, and pickles; individual recipes include ones for rusk, blanc mange, puffert, calves' feet jelly, and other dishes. Medicinal recipes include medicines for indigestion, cholera morbis, the summer complaint in children, plus three others. Also one newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1790-1800.

Stella Lormor Hanford collection of recipes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113561108]
Identifier: 8581
Scope and content

Includes an annotated copy of The Busy Bee Cook Book, handwritten recipes used by Stella Hanford, photocopies of family photographs, and a biography of Hanford written by her great grandson, Thomas Slaight.

Dates: 1920-1929.