Cookbook, 19th century.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
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Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

Cookbook, 19th century, Manuscript MS 81.10, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
R. Elwin, T. Watson, L. Wickam.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Cookbook, 19th century, Manuscript MS 81.10, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

This anonymous nineteenth-century, manuscript cook book contains recipes attributed to the Mesdames Elwin, T. Watson and L. Wickam. Includes recipes for meat, seafood, puddings, fruits, and wines. Also contained are directions for dying buff and for making cement. Several unsigned poems appear in the back of the volume.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1981.
Physical description:
1 v. (264 p.)