Scope and content

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

Abstract

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

Scope and content Diaries of Myra Fenner Johnson, 1919-1929 (14 volumes) and her son Walter Johnson, 1959-1977 (6 volumes); ledgers belonging to Walter Fenner, 1918-1924 and 1940-1948; cashbook belonging to Charles Worsell and Florence Dates Worsell, 1915-1918; autograph album belonging to Rachel Alvord, 1882-1892; unidentified manuscript recipe book; New York State District Superintendents examinations, 1910-1912; postcards; 1903 Cornell Commencement invitation sent to Helen S. Dates by Emily S. Boardman;...

Abstract

Booklets relating to food and cooking.

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.

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.