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Field name | Value |
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Reference | Cookery 1856 Sk |
Library/Archive | University of Michigan |
Title | Our family book, or, household prize |
Author/Creator | Skinner, H B |
Date | 1856 |
Collection | Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive |
Collection Overview | A collection of American culinary history including cookbooks, menus and ephemera from the 16th through to the 21st century. Through this culinary archive researchers can explore changing attitudes towards diet and health, homemaking, commercial dining and the industrialisation of food production. The material has been collected over many years by Jan Longone, an adjunct curator in the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center, and her husband University of Michigan Emeritus Professor Daniel T. Longone. |
Sub-collection | Cookbooks |
Place of Publication | Boston, USA |
Publisher | Skinner, H.B |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook |
Theme | Food and Identity |
Subjects | domestic technology advice to housekeepers herbs |
Cuisine | North American cuisine |
Description | Described as: 'A work adapted to the wants of every trade and profession, from the humblest mechanic to the gentleman of fortune, such as the farmer and gardener, fruit grower and florist, bird-fancier, cattle and horse doctor, fowl-breeder, physician and apothecary, perfumer and confectioner, medical and culinary herbalist, sick man and the healthy, rich man and the poor, business man and man of no business, merchant and lawyer, minister and layman, and to every department of the housekeeper, from the washerwoman and cook in the kitchen, to the lady in the parlor'. Covers baking, descriptions of herbs, ailments. Includes some woodcut illustrations. |
Countries | United States |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the University of Michigan. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from the University of Michigan |