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Handwritten recipe book, rebound in hardcover, p. 1-56 handnumbered, pages brittle and some torn out.

Handwritten in ink. Covers accounts from Berwick-on-Tweed, Scotland, 1832-1833, Saint Andrews, N.B., 1833-1835 and 1836-1844, and Saint John, N. B., 1848-1859. Other locations on the journey such as London, Falmouth, Halifax and Annapolis receive brief entries. Also 2 loose sheets of accounts to "the estate of the late James Raitt", and to "the estate of the late Rob't Kennedy", dated 1844 and 1841. The accounts cover various expenditures, including food, drink, clothing, transportation fare, theatre tickets, losses and profits at cards, servants' pay, medical and church expenses, household goods, etc.

Book of handwritten dessert and pastry recipes with some glued in newspaper clippings, some pages very brittle. "Miss A. N. Vair, Cobourg, Ont." and "High School, 187(?)" is on the first page, "Agnes N. Vair" written inside back. Also includes 4 loose sheets of cake and pastry recipes and 1 sheet of newspaper clippings.

Handwritten recipe book mainly of desserts, soups, and preserves. Recipe credits are given. There is a large collection of lemon pie recipes. Salve and ointment recipes, and cholera remedy are written at the back of the book. Also includes 1 loose recipe for cream candy (p. 141-142 from a different book). "The best corn is put up by W.K. Lewis brothers, 93 Broad St., Boston, Mass."--cf. last page. Spine title: Records.

Handwritten recipe book, pages numbered to 125, possibly Una Abrahamson's note in front of book "c1820-1830"? All recipes have sources.

Handwritten recipe and remedy book, clasp broken and missing, pages numbered up to 209, p. 101-209 blank, elaborate index in front. Some recipes dated from their magazine source, 1868-1880, no dates associated with p. 1-76 suggesting they may have been entered earlier. A remedy on p. 78 is taken from a 1796 magazine.

Loose leaf notebook labelled "Cakes" with some pages added; newspaper and magazine recipe clippings for cake, bread, biscuits, muffins, pastries and cookies; also 1 loose sheet of notes. Cover has "The Dominion Loose Leaf Note Book", Toronto, Copp Clark Company, Limited. XM1 MS A117054 and XM1 MS A117055 are bound similarly in the same type of notebook with similar labels on the cover.

Handwritten recipe book written in a 1907 diary. Also includes 2 loose recipes for grape wine and war fruit cake, and newspaper clippings of the recipe for the christening cake for the son of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles and on effective rations for laying pullets. Throughout the book are prospector's diary entries and notes written around Haileybury.

Bibliographic typescripts with occasional handwritten notes. See XM1 MS A117015-XM1 MS A117073 for actual manuscripts. Catalogue includes cookbooks, books on entertainment, manners, home economics, health, medicine, herbs, diet, furnishings and housekeeping as well as manuscripts, advertisements, almanacs and pamphlets