Maybe this will help your search Re: SC - An Elderly Cookbook. OOP

[RichSCA at aol.com]

 Phlip,

I wish I was home with my cookbooks - you are right in the time period I 
collect.  I know that I do have (or had) a series of cookbooks by a Marion 
Harland. My house burned down in 1988 so I have trouble remembering if what I 
have is BF or AF  (before fire or after fire). 

The series was called:  MODERN DOMESTIC SCIENCE.  and was written by 
Christine Herrick and Marion Harland by Werner in Akron, Ohio in 1909.

Maybe this information will help you.

Rayne


In a message dated 4/11/00 8:04:49 PM Central Daylight Time, 
phlip at morganco.net writes:

<< 
 At a recent fleamarket, I picked up a rather battered Cook Book for $2. At
 the time, I was merely hoping that it went back to the '50s, thinking that
 it might have a lot of good recipes which don't use commercial products in
 them, and I was right- it does. The cover says: "Ladies Home Cook Book", I
 think. The book has been through what looks like a fire, and the cover is
 very hard to read. There is no title page left, merely an unsigned "Fore
 Word". In the front section, which is merely (?) a group of recipes, sorted
 by type, I discovered several bookmarks, a couple of which are newspaper
 articles with recipes on the front, and baseball standings on the back, the
 only date being August 9, No Year, and later a
 
 "Program Children's Day
 
 Grace Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
 
 Kokomo Indiana
 
 June 12, 1904".
 
 There is an index following the initial recipe section, then a section of
 bound-in lined notepaper, in which, apparently, the housewife was expected
 to write her recipes and other notes, and she did, oh yes, oh my, she did,
 in a very proper, very precise, cursive script.
 
 An excerpt:
 
 " Formaldehyde or corrosive (sublimieribe- sic, as best I can tell) on
 potatoes before being cut to prevent scab. Gapes in chickens. Three drops of
 creoline to one quart of drinking water, should be used as (preventitive ?)
 as well.
 
 " Iodine of Potash   2 drams
 Compound syrup of (Shlingia?)
 
 "To remove moles from face. bathe in caster oil every day.-------Sweet
 spirits nite for frosted feet or hands. Powdered borax will keep moths out
 of clothes or rugs."
 
 The next section starts with a very strong looking woman, probably middle
 aged, with greying hair, cut rather short and "business like", is the
 adjective which comes to mind. She looks very stern, but she also looks as
 if she might, when not sitting for a formal portrait, be kind and humorous.
 Under her portrait is a cursive signature, "Very sincerely yours,
 Marion Harland."
 I cannot tell if it is in fact her signature, or an engraving/facsimile.
 
 The facing page says:
 
 "Bills of Fare for All Seasons of the Year including Thanksgiving and
 Christmas Dinners
 
 ........by...........
 
 Marion Harland"
 
 and a poem:
 
 "We may live without poetry, music, and art;
 We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
 We may live without friends; we may live without books:
 But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
 He may live without books---- what is knowledge but grieving?
 He may live without hope---- what is hope but deceiving?
 He may live without love---- what is passion but pining?
 But where is the man who can live without dining?"
 
 On the following page it says:
 
 "Copyrighted 1896
        By
 L. M. Palmer"
 
 The rest of the book is menus with recipes, divided by the seasons. Each
 "day" contains a breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with recipes- If I tried to
 eat all of what was offered, I'd weigh 500 lbs in a week ;-)
 
 It is very obviously a "modern" American Cookbook- it has recipes for
 "Southern Gumbo" and "Brunswick Stew",  "Oyster Soup" and "Oyster Stew",
 "Pickled Tripe" and proper "Souse".
 
 What I am asking you folk, is what exactly this cookbook is- when published,
 when written, who wrote the first section, etc. Thomas, Bear, Cariadoc, Ras,
 Adamantius, I'm particularly counting on your help- I'll be surfing the 'Net
 myself to see what I can find, but I think the more we have looking, the
 more chance we have of finding something.
 
 My intention is to scan the entire thing and clean it up and put it on CD
 for future reference, saving the original for detailed questions- the book
 truly is in bad shape, flaking apart, with bookworm holes and such- once I'm
 done with it, I intend to seal it in an anaerobic bag. It may not be, in
 fact probably isn't, intrinsicly valuable, but I count it a personal
 treasure- best 2 bucks I've spent in 20 years ;-)
 
 The Rest of the Story
 
 On the inside of the front cover there is a signature:
 
 Mrs Genevieve Jamison Pickett
 Union City, Oh
 RR # 5
 
 Upon a series of adventures, including a couple of local police departments
 and Chambers of Commerce, I found the local museum for the county in which
 Union City is,  in Greeneville, Darke County, Ohio, very near the Indiana
 border and 35 miles NW of Dayton, where it just happens I'm scheduled to
 visit Andrew MacRobb this weekend. We're going up this weekend, book in tow,
 to the Garst Museum to meet with their book curator, and see what else we
 can find. If nothing else, this museum happens to have the finest wordwide
 collection of Annie Oakley memorabilia, who just happens to be a lifetime
 shero of mine, so I rather doubt we'll be bored ;-)
 
 Anybody nearby in the MK is welcome to meet us there- it's open from 11 to 5
 on Saturday- we'll be there early.
 
 Phlip
 
 Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.
 
 phlip at morganco.net
 
 Philippa Farrour
 Caer Frig
 Southeastern Ohio
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