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Archive for January 11th, 2010

another slice of cake

Receipts for New Year’s Cake also found a place in the pages of individual manuscript (handwritten) cookbooks. Below is one from the home of Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (1799-1835), who was a member of the upstate-New York Philip Van Rensselaer family. As is typical of personal receipt books, it merely lists the necessary ingredients. Of course, [...]

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