Booklet

Cook Book


1845 – 1857 (Earliest/Latest dates)
Hand-made, leather bound memorandum booklet 4" x 6". Most of the pages contain cookery recipes written in several different adult hands. Two sets of pages at one end are debit/credit accounts with William Howard and Horace H. Sill.
A childish hand has recorded the family's composition: My name is George Sidney Howard (age 12). I have 2 brothers John (16) and William (18) and 2 sisters Lowry? (25) and Elizabeth (20). My father is W. E. Howard (age 53) and mother A.A. (formerly Alen) (50). Windsor 1857
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