Manuscript Location

University of Iowa Main Library, Special Collections, Szathmary Culinary Archive

Place of Origin

United States ➔ New York

Date of Composition

1810 or 1818

Description

This manuscript is contained in a notebook of 31 pages, 16 of which have writing. The recipes include: gooseberry Wine, current Wine, cure for bite of a mad dog, Another for the Bite of A mad dog, To Make Cowslip Wine, To preserve Oranges, To Preserve Green Gages, To Make Cherry Wine, to Make mead, To Make Elderwine, To make English Mederia wine, to make good Current wine, For Choleramabus (a stomach remedy made from parched corn), to Pickle Green [pickles]. The second page of the manuscript contains the words "New York" and "America" and the date May 13, 1810 (or 1818).