Receipt book of pastry confectionery and ornamental works from the celebrated cook Christian Hartmann, Winslow House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1862.

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Manuscript Location
Minnesota Historical Society, Gale Family Library
Holding Library Call No.
P861
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
1405
Place of Origin
United States ➔ Iowa ➔ Washington
Date of Composition
1862
Description
This small handwritten volume contains recipes for cakes, pastries, cookies, puddings, sauces, candy, ice cream, and preserves. It also contains a few household recipes: salves, cologne water, hair wash, and instructions for drying plants and preventing mildew.

The Winslow House, an early St. Paul hotel, was built in the 1850s and destroyed by fire on October 10, 1862. Frank Erd was born in Ohio in 1836. In 1860 he was working as a bookkeeper in New Ulm, Minnesota. A note on the inside of the cover states that he wrote the volume in Washington, Iowa, after the "Indian masacre" of August 18, 1862.