Receipt book
By: Sarah Joanna Webster.
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Published: 1800
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Cookery, English; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Gardening; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.)
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 489
Holograph. Includes some printed items, clipped from unspecified sources and mounted.
Recipes, home remedies, and horticultural hints.
Title stamped in gold on cover.
Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939 (Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy. Manuscript cookery book no. 27).
Written in Great Britain.
Probably begun before Lady Webster's marriage in 1851, and continued afterwards. Cf. her signature on flyleaf, in which "Webster" appears to be a later addition.
More than half the pages are blank.