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Catalog Number |
1976.1.A058.01 |
Author / Creator |
Bessie Pardee Van Wickle McKee |
Title |
1976.1.A058.01 Bessie Van Wickle handwritten recipe journal |
Published Date |
1882-1889 |
Description of Contents |
Box 1976.0.A058 contains assorted Journals and Notebooks belonging to Bessie Pardee Van Wickle, including a Diary, Dinner Party Record book, a book of handwritten recipes, a Line A Day diary of travel to Columbian Worlds Fair, Gift lists, Birthday books, Party plans and more. Item 01 1976.1.A058.01 Bessie Van Wickle notebook containing handwritten recipes. It contains recipes, poems, and remedies including some from friends and family. Some entries are dated covering years from 1882 to 1889. The recipes include soups, fish, bread, vegetables, eggs, and desserts. The remedies are quite interesting, from remedy for diarrhea and hair wash to varnish for grates and sweetening kitchen sinks. The cover page is signed "Bessie Pardee / March 2, 1886 / Buffalo, N.Y. " Contents examples: Pages 8-10 Soups: Clam, Mary's Mushroom, Celery, Cream of Squash, Mary's Tomato Pages 14-15 Escalloped Oysters, Turbot and Chicken Croquettes Pages 70-71 Mrs. Garland's Omelet and Mrs. Van Wickle's bread (Augustus's mother) Page 72 Baked Corn, Potato Strips Page 73 Creamed eggs and sauce for eggs Page 74 Cranberries Page 101 Alice Lee's Prune Meringue Pages 102-103 Chocolate Pudding and Farina Custard Page 104-105 The Van Wickle Rice Pudding and Dried Rusk Page 106-107 Canned Strawberries Page 120-121 Hard Wood Floor Cleaner, Remedy for Diarrhea, Stella Allison's Hair Wash Page 122 Varnish for Grates, Sweetening Kitchen Sinks, Making Colors Permanent |
Physical Description |
Multi-colored cardboard cover bound with leather. Design is marbelized, scalloped lines of blue, red, yellow, green. Colors are faded. Pages are lined paper with entries in ink. Pages are aged. Dimensions are 6.5" wide x 7.75" high x 0.5" deep. |
Condition |
Good |
Associated with |
Bessie Pardee Van Wickle McKee |
Search Terms |
Book, Recipe Recipe Cookbook Cooking Dining Poetry Entertaining Dining Room Non-fiction |
Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Object Name |
Notebook |
Number of images |
2 |