Manuscript Cookbook

This manuscript cookbooks (which also includes some recipes clipped from newspapers) belong to Cora Bolton McBryde. It's unclear when she began keeping it, but like many handwritten recipe books, it was added to over time (suggested by the changing writing tools) and may include additions from several generations (suggested by the various handwritings). The cookbook contains a wide variety of recipes, as well as planned (or intended) menus and some children's scrawls and scribbles. The majority of the recipes are for sweet dishes, including "Cora's Date Pudding," sponge and coffee cakes, puddings, snows, and icings. In addition, there are handwritten and clipped recipes for meat and fish dishes, vegetables, salad dressings, and breads. At least 3 recipes are attributed to "Flora," who could have been Cora's daughter-in-law, Flora Webster McBryde (wife of John, Jr.).