Abstract The Armed Forces Recipes Service Cards Collection contains three materials related to the Armed Forces Recipes Service Cards. There are around 1000 cards, and each card contains a recipe to feed 100 people. The cards provide insight into food preparation and nutrition for the Armed Forces during the Vietnam War era. Prior to 1969, the four main military branches published their own editions of recipe cards. In 1969, they consolidated the recipe cards into the Armed Forces Recipes Cards,...

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This collection includes a memobook and journal owned by Judith Fenner Barnard (1896-1984), a teacher in Roadsville, Virginia, and Prince George County, Virginia. The memobook, dated July 1964, contains recipes, addresses, hospital records, and a seating arrangement for a dinner party. The journal, 1914-1972 includes journal entries about the Barnard family's lives and handwritten recipes.

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The collection consists of a recipe book titled Book for Receipts written in England in 1731 by at least two authors--names unknown. Recipes focus largely on delicacies, not on staple meals, and home remedies.

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The collection contains a music book, two recipe books, and a concert program. The music book and concert program feature songs from the American Civil War.

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This collection includes a recipe book containing hand-written recipes for soups, salads, puddings, cookies, cakes, icings, and biscuits. The date, location, and full author name remain unknown.

Abstract This collection contains a leather bound English receipt and home remedy book, dating 1665-1704. The book's contents include food recipes for various wines, desserts, and meals, as well as treatment for agues, pains, and various illnesses. Loose papers within the collection contain more recipes and a love poem. Several names inside the front cover, along with different handwritings, suggest the book may have at least two owners: "Madam White" and Mrs. Ashworth. A typed transcription of the...

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This collection consist of a handwritten book from Hertford, England, containing recipes for home remedies, household items, rat poison, cakes, breads, meats, stews, beverages (ales), and more.

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The collection consists of a recipe book handwritten in German.