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Title: | Household Recipe Book |
Inclusive Dates: | circa 1860 |
Quantity: | 1 volume (SC) |
Abstract: | Notebook with pasted-in and handwritten recipes for a wide range of household uses, from ginger beer to silver polish to a formula for determining the weight of live cattle. |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Nothing is known of the compiler of this volume. One of the clippings has a partial date from 1859.
The Household Recipe Book is a single volume containing pasted-in and handwritten recipes for a wide range of household uses, from ginger beer to silver polish to a formula for determining the weight of live cattle. Other recipes and instructions include brown hair dye, mushroom catsup, rhubarb cordial, curing meat and restoring burned steel.
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Household Recipe Book,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Purchase, 1969.
Created by: MRC
Date: 20 Sep 2010
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