MANUSCRIPT
Recipe book
- Date
- [ca 1782-1947]
- Reference
- MSX-7821
- Description
Recipe book, begun in 1782, and with later recipes added. The recipes include instructions on making soap and medicines as well as food. Contains index at front. Includes newspaper cuttings of recipes from ca 1858, sketches of buildings and copies of some correspondence, the most recent of which is dated as 1947. The cuttings are from Wanganui newspapers. Many of the pages are encrusted with mud, possibly caused by one of the many floods which have occurred in Blenheim.
Source of title - Supplied by Library
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Mss, in several hands
Provenance: Given to the donor by an elderly friend, E B Gilberd of Stokes Valley, in 1980s. The original owners appear to have lived in Blenheinm and Wanganui.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Buckingham, Louise, 1937- : Papers
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Recipes, Manuscripts, Mss, in several hands
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