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Cookery

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Household manuals and recipe books library, Undated

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-004
Scope and Contents

This artificial collection was begun in 2005 to create a library of historical household manuals and recipe books (cookbooks) showing the development of the form.

Dates: Undated

Receipt book, approximately 1710-1760

 Item
Identifier: 2005-010
Content Description An 18th-century commonplace book used to record financial accounts, poetry and then primarily for recipes and other household matters. From the names recorded in the ledger portion of the volume, it would appear that the woman whose volume this was, resided in a Puritan community. Specific places mentioned in the volume include Kensington and London. Entries written in at least two different hands.In total, the volume contains approximately eighty recipes, written dos-a-dos...
Dates: approximately 1710-1760

Richard Hellmann's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise cookery book, 1920

 Item
Identifier: 1981.008.1
Scope and Contents

A product-oriented cookery book, issued by the San Francisco branch of Hellmann's to publicize their popular mayonnaise

Dates: Publication: 1920