Manuscript Cookbooks

To ½ pk peaches 2 lbs sugar ½ pk vinigar [vinegar], spice to taste pare them, and let the sugar vinegar, + spices, boil together a five minutes, then let the peaches boil long enough for the syrup to go through them or [?] [clear?]

it. Add the former ingredients to it.

Cheese Cake

1/2 lb butter and sifted sugar beat to a cream. 5 eggs beat very light, to a half pint of milk, for the curd, put in the egg when the milk has boiled, stir it gent ly till the curd is made put it to [drain?}, then mix it with two oz of grated bread stir this in by degrees with your butter and sugar, beat 4 eggs very light. Add them by degrees, then add a wine glass of wine, brandy and rosewater mixed. Stir all well to gether

Queen Cake Take 1 1/4# of flour 1# Butter 1# Sugar 12 eggs 1 gill Brandy and rosewater [stuid] citron [?pice] currants

Maple Biscuit 1# of flour 1# of Sugar 10 eggs rosewater and 1 gill of wine

Composition Cake 1 pound and 3/4 of flour 3/4 Butter 1 lb and 1/4 Sugar 5 eggs 1 pint Milk 1 glass of Brandy. A little Rosewater very small teaspoon Pearlash 2 lbs Currants & Raisins mixed

Apple Pudding

1# butter, and 1 of suggar beat light, 10 eggs the same; stew the apples and push them through a cullinder then put it into your butter sugar & eggs till you think it tastes sufficiently of it, 1 wine glass of wine, brandy & rosewater mix, nutmeg & cinnamon to your taste.

Another way, take 6 large pippins stew them soft 8 eggs leaveing out the whites of 6, take 1/2 lb of butter 1/2 of sifted sugar half pint of cream a little rosewater and enough grated bread or buiscut to thicken then bake it in slow ashes, No oven, [Ohinoboil?] it, boil it

[??e] the beeff, a little and cut holes in each side, take the marrow out of the bone, cut it up fine 2penny worth of pot herbs, cut very fine, 3 tablespoonfulls of salt, 2 of pep per, 2 doz cloves pounded, fine half teaspoonfull of mace, Small nutmeg, also pounded fine handfull, of sweet marjoram, Thyme, Summer, Savory and Sweet Bazile, of each a hand full, rub them very fine, and mix all well together, for the stuffing, a little bread, added is a great improvement, put a part of the stuffing in each of the holes, then take a piece of fat pork, past boiled, cut the fat in slices, put one

Composition Cake

1 3/4 lb of Flower 3/4 lb of Butter 1 1/4 1b of Sugar 5 Eggs 1 Pint of Milk 1 Glass of Brandy a little Rose Water Spoonfull of Pearl Ash 2lb Raisins [o?] Currants

Mountain Gingerbread

6 Tea cups flour 2 of butter 2 of sugar 2 of molasses 4 eggs 2 Table spoonfuls of Ginger a Tea spoonful of pearl ash & Spice to your taste.

Mountain Ginger bre[ad?]

Take 6 cups of flour two of butter 2 of sugar two of molases 4 eggs a tea spoonful of pearl ash ginger cinnamon and other spice to your taste

Sponge Cake

Take 3/4 lb of Flour 1 lb of Sugar 10 Eggs beat well 2 lemons the flour to be put in little at a time after the rest are well mixed & bake in a slow oven. A Trotters recipe

Ginger Pound Cake

Take 2 cups of sugar 2 of butter to which break 4 eggs, mix them together then add 2 cups of molasses & 6 of flour 2 table spoon full of ginger 1 of cinnamon and other spices to your taste; lastly 1 teaspoonful of pearl ash E Trotters recipe

Ginger nuts

2 lb of butter 1 ,, ginger 1/4 lb allspice cloves 1/2 [glale?] molasses as much flour as will knead it.

Cream cake - M. A. Ley -

Take 4 cups flour 3 [do?] sugar, 5 eggs, 1 cup of butter 1 of cream, 1 tea spoon full pearl ash

Apple Pudding

Take the Apples and stew then push them through a Collander 8 eggs, leave out the whites of 6 1/2 lb of butter 1/2 of sugar 1/2 pint of Cream a little Rosewater and enough grated bread or biscuit to thicken it.

Ginger Loaf -

6 cups of flour 2 of Sugar 2 of Molasses. 5 eggs, 2 cups butter 2 tablespoons full Ginger 2 of Cinnamon Tea spoon even full of Pearl ash dissolved in cream or a little vinegar and put in effervescing.

Recipe for Jambles without weighing articles

Take a piled cup of Butter. [do?] Sugar, beat together, 3 eggs, a Teaspoon full of mace, and one of Cinnamon, 1/2 glass rosewater 7 drops Ess.Lemon and as much flour after adding a bowl full carefully as will roll them out

Ginger Nuts. 2lb of butter 2 lb Sugar 1/2 gal Molasses, and as much flour as would mix it well 1 oz Ginger 1/2 oz Cinnamon 1/2 oz Allspice, with nutmeg & [?], till as strong as you wish.

Aunt Haines Recipe "Hasty Pudding -

Take a quart of good rich milk, and thicken with flour like starch, then put in grated Lemon oil of Lemon or something to your fancy to give it a pleasant flavor, and after adding 2 eggs thicken it (as we would Indian mush) with flour, till it would be stiff enough to form a good [Txxp's] Head, and eat it with milk or cream. Turns out better when cold, and the pan must be well buttered whether it is to be eaten hot or cold.