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Receipt book,, mid 19th century

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Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection contains a book holding both recipes and receipts, likely written by an Elvira Jane Hanna whose name is signed on many of the volume's pages. The recipes include Sweet Potato Waffles, Turtle Soup, Bacon Frase, Ginger Beer, Cottage Pudding, Panada, Arrow Root Jelly, Oyster Pie, and Election Cake. The receipts in the collection are medical, cataloguing purchases of tonics, cleaning methods, and hair restoratives. There are 49 written pages of recipes. Several pages have been...
Dates: mid 19th century