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Toy stove
This item is a c.1910s children's toy stove. When used, this stove would have been fueled by kerosene. This stove is missing some parts and has some damage, but it includes the stove, two pots (one with a lid), a kettle, a small baking pan, several…
Van Houten Cocoa Game
This item is a French board game from the Van Houten Dutch Cocoa company. The rules of the game are based on "Game of the Goose."
English Receipt/Home Remedies Manual, Pages on Home Remedies
Pages from the receipt book dealing with specific home remedies.
Manuscript Receipt Book, Remedies for the Home
Pages from the Manuscript Receipt Book dealing with remedies for the home.
English Receipt/ Home Remedy Book c. 1830s-1840s
A handwritten home remedy/receipt book with entries in English and French. The book is bound in red leather with paper marbling on the inner binding.
Manuscript Receipt Book
A handwritten receipt book containing handwritten receipts and pages from cookery booklets. The receipts range from cures for illness and maladies in people and animals to practical receipts for paint and stains.
This item also includes a partial…
"277 Standard/100 Tropical Recipes" [notebook]
The "277 Standard/100 Tropical Recipes" is a 1944 revised edition and includes cocktail recipes in two sections. This edition built on the first version, copyright in 1937. Pages are carbon type copies of recipes, arranged in alphabetical order…
El Mirador Hotel Cocktail Menu, n.d. (Ms2015-040)
This collection contains an undated cocktail menu for the South Pacific Room of the El Mirador Hotel. The menu's cover depicts South Pacific art and the El Mirador Hotel name. On the inside the menu shows colorful depictions of the cocktails offered…
Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil Trade Card, [c.1875-1940?] (Ms2009-064)
While Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil was marketed until the 1940s and 1950s, the particular trade card in this collection most likely dates to the late Victorian era. The Victorian era is a period of time that directly corresponds with the reign of the…
Tolu Rock and Rye standing display
<p>Tolu Rock and Rye appears to have a short history of distribution between 1880 and 1881 (possibly a little later) as a patent medicine.</p> <p>Classification of the drink as a medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
Drink mixer [activity card] / compliments of Nat M. Leff, boxing promoter . . .
A rare piece of Prohibition-era cocktailiana, presenting recipes for 72 concoctions listed alphabetically from Alexander to Woodstock, in a"slide rule format. This piece was distributed "compliments of Nat M. Leff, Boxing Promoter, boxers furnished…
Versatile Vegetables poster
Ms2013-028_HorsfordTradeCards
These are a few of the Horford Baking & Phosphate trade cards in the larger Culinary Ephemera Collection.
Dr. S. J. Sears' domestic receipt book
16 pages
Here’s How: A Handbook of Recipes of Spirituous and Non-Spirituous Drinks Gathered from Authoritative Sources
39 pages
"National Diary" Recipe Book, [1914?] (Ms2009-051)
A bound volume of recipes, handwritten or clipped from newspapers. The recipes are in no particular order and include main dishes, sides, and some breakfast items. The majority are dessert recipes. Some examples include "Grapenut pudding," "Deviled…
"Koch-Recepte" German Recipe Book, n.d. (Ms2009-050)
A recipe book handwritten in German. The book is broken up into sections, but only about one-third contain recipes. Most of the recipes are in the "Backwerk" or "Baking" section. Some examples of recipes include: "Kartoffelsalat" (potato salad),…
Hertford Receipt Book, 1800-1833 (Ms2008-027)
The Hertford Receipt Book is a recipe book written in Hertford, England (a county town of Hertfordshire) from 1800 to 1833. The recipes were documented by several people as handwriting changes throughout the volume. Some recipes are…
Print from Ivanhoe, Virginia, Moonshine Still Glass Plate (Ms2009-028)
The materials in the Ivanhoe, Virginia, Moonshine Still Glass Plate Collection include the glass plate and two black and white prints. The plate depicts a working still.
An Ideal Home Illustrated Scrapbook (Ms2013-026)
The collection consists of an illustrated scrapbook, detailing the set up for a household, possibly compiled for a new bride or a school assignment. Each room is mapped out and illustrated with magazine pictures and includes a price list of…
Receipts and home remedies manuscript book (Ms2000-092)
Good Housekeeping's Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries
253 pages
Twentieth Century Cook Book; An Up-to-date and Skillful Preparation on the Art of Cooking and Modern Candy Making Simplified
182 pages
Mary Jane's Book of Household Hints
93 pages
French Cookery for American Homes: 634 Recipes of Simple and Easy Dishes
280 pages
My Favorite Receipt
123 pages
The Housekeeper's Helper; Furnishing the Very Best Help in all the Necessities, Intricacies, Emergencies, and Vexations that Puzzle a Housekeeper
644 pages
The Housekeeper's Helper; Furnishing the Very Best Help in all the Necessities, Intricacies, Emergencies, and Vexations that Puzzle a Housekeeper
644 pages
The Cosmopolitan Cook and Recipe Book: Containing Recipes for the Preparation of American, French, German, English, Irish, and Other National Dishes
397 pages
Every-day Facts for Every-day Life: A Book for the Household
412 pages
Manuscript Book, How to Cook a Husband, c.1880 (Ms2010-079)
The collection contains a single hand-made ribbon-bound manuscript entitled, A Novel Recipe “How to Cook a Husband.” The book’s recipe instructs newlywed women on how to treat their husbands well with metaphors that compare wifely duties and…
'Book for Receipts' Recipe Book, 1731 (Ms2008-024)
The Book for Receipts is a recipe book written in England in 1731. At least two owners added to this work (the names of owners remain unknown) because the handwriting changes in the last third of text. Some recipe contributors are named, such as:…
"Cooking Recipes" Recipe Book (Ms2008-023)
Cooking Recipes is a book filled with hand-written recipes. A hand-painted image of a girl with a duck adorns the cover of "Cooking Recipes." Within the book's pages exist a variety of recipes for soups, salads, puddings, cookies, cakes, icings, and…
Healthful Hints to Young Mothers: Also to Invalids and the Aged...
18 pages
The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods, with Special Reference to the Detection of Adulteration and the Diagnosis of Mixtures
701 pages
Sallie Wilson Recipe Book, n.d. (Ms2009-002)
This collection consists of a recipe book bearing the name of Sallie Wilson of Liberty, Virginia. The small book contains more than 100 recipes, mostly for various desserts (pies, cakes and puddings) and breads, but also for such fare as potato…
The Domestic Encyclopaedia; or, A Dictionary of Facts and Useful Knowledge
5 volumes
The Chemistry of Cookery
328 pages
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Cookery; A Textbook of Household Science, for Use in Schools
347 pages
The Ladies' Complete Manual of Home Duties: A Book of the Household
156 pages
Dietetics for High Schools
201 pages
Just How: A Key to the Cook-books
311 pages
The Pastrycook and Confectioner's Guide: For Hotels, Restaurants, and the Trade in General, Adapted also for Family Use
108 pages
The Improved Housewife, or Book of Receipts
238 pages
Modern Red Velvet Cupcakes
This is an image of a red velvet cupcakes from a modern recipe from the cookbook "United cakes of America."
The Grocer's Encyclopedia
748 pages
Baker's Chocolate Layer Cake
This is an image of a chocolate layer cake with a white cake base and chocolate frosting from a 1932 pamphlet from the Walter Baker & Co.
Baker's Premium No.1 Chocolate Bar
This is an image of the container used to market Baker's Breakfast Cocoa featuring the iconic "Bella Chocolatiere," or chocolate lady." It comes from ther 1928 cookbook titles "Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa".
"Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa" Cookbook Cover
This is an image of the container used to market Baker's Breakfast Cocoa featuring the iconic "Bella Chocolatiere," or chocolate lady." It comes from ther 1928 cookbook titles "Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa".
Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate Bar
This is an image of the container used to market Baker's Breakfast Cocoa featuring the iconic "Bella Chocolatiere," or chocolate lady." It comes from ther 1928 cookbook titles "Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa".
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