Manuscript includes recipes for cakes, donuts, bread, salad dressings and sauces, puddings, pickles, and wines. Medicinal recipes include cures for cough, boils, rheumatism, and tooth aches.
Created:
1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Recipe manuscript, possibly from the American South. Includes biblical citations and large numbers of recipes written in several hands in both ink and pencil. Recipes include: Charleston pudding, watermellon cake, molases drop cake, Suet pudding, mustard pickles, Della's jelly cake, corn bread, delicate pie, loaf cake, enfield cake, cup cake, gi...
Created:
1836 - 1900?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Medical recipe manuscript collection of 72 remedies, nearly all dated and signed by Robert T. Van Deusen. Remedies for the dropsy, 'female obstructions', ulcers, and cancers are included as are recipes for laxative pills, restorative cordials, and sassaparilla syrup.
Creator:
Van Deusen, Robert T
Created:
1844 - 1857
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Nonce collection of four provincial manuscripts. [1] Manuscript fragment records cures of all kinds of ailments and records medical consultations -- [2] Cures for ailments and addresses complex diseases -- [3] Pharmaceutical record with notation and headings -- [4] Excerpt copied from a book.
Created:
1650? - 1701?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Manuscript containing an extensive collection of culinary and medicinal recipes. Most recipes are for cookery, but there are also many recipes for domestic medicine and household duties. Includes tables of weights and measures.
Creator:
Dawkins, Henry, (Mrs.)
Created:
1815? - 1820?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Includes collection of English recipes written by Reverend Saul Fawcett in a legible hand. Recipes include cookies, jellies, butters, mustards, brewing, and yeast; as well as recipes for creating household products, including: green wash for walls, furniture cleaner, detergents, and medicines, also includes recipes for remedies such as the hoopi...
Creator:
Fawcett, Saul
Created:
1787? - 1823?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Recipe manuscript containing expansive collection of recipes for numerous waters, elixirs, oils, poisons, and aqua vitae. Recipes are sometimes introduced as cures for specific ailments while others provide no suggestions of usage.
Created:
1743
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Two manuscript laboratory record books listing secret ingredients, steps for fabicating ""Gouttes du Général La Motte"" (also known by ""teinture toniconervina Bestuscheffi"" and ""Klaproth's tincture""), and records of delivery to patients using the tincture. The elixir was touted as a cure-all that treated apoplexy, paralysis, gout, pleurisy...
Created:
1730 - 1733?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Recipe manuscript of various remedies coming from Greece, Switzerland, Germany, England, and France. Manuscript of remedies for various ailments and of recommendations to maintain health. Includes summaries of medications, virtues of drugs in general, cordials, names and weights of medicines, infusions, distillation, various waters, liqueurs, ga...
Created:
1769-01-13
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Holograph manuscript includes 250 recipes for various remedies and French medicines including descriptions of ailments and treatments. Also includes recipes for vanilla, chocolate, vinegar, wines, and perfumes. Recipes use ingredients such as cinnamon, vinegar, butter, rhubarb, nutmeg, cloves, rosemary, plums, and more.
Creator:
Courbis, Jean Antonie
Created:
1706
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Manuscript receipt book in various but legible hands. Numbered pages contain recipes for cakes, puddings, beverages, ginger beer, jellies, cheese, and desserts. Unnumbered pages, written tête-bêche, contain domestic recipes for poultices, medicines, shampoo, ointiments, floor stain, tooth powders, and household cleaners.
Created:
1859-05
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Manuscript of medicinal and culinary recipes written for use in the military. Includes a wide range of remedies including several related to military combat. Includes recipes for preparation of wine, the preservation and salting of meats, and other general household recipes.
Creator:
Séine, Marquis de la
Contributor:
Thiboult du Puisact, Jacques François Marie
Created:
1778?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Manuscript of over 400 early medical and culinary recipes, including recipes related to traditional folk medicine. Includes remedies for ailments of the head, epilepsy, melancholy, headaches, gout, gynecological health, and preventing miscarriages. Culinary recipes include alcoholic beverages, vinegar, and ciders. Also includes recipes for soaps...
Created:
1650? - 1700
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Fifty-two unattributed recipes hand written some time after 1772,the vast majority on food and drink, including 'Carolina snowballs,' 'Carolina rice pudding,' 'Rules for brewing,' 'To dry a goose,' methods of making chocolate, 'India pickle,' and ice cream. Also includes 'The Jews way of preserving salmon and all sorts of fish,' which may well b...
Created:
1772
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
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