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