White Sponge Cake, Sarah Fisk's Cake, Filled Cookies, and Filling

White Sponge Cake, Sarah Fisk's Cake, Filled Cookies, and Filling

These manuscript recipes for White Sponge Cake, Sarah Fisk's Cake, Filled Cookies, and Filling are written in The Kansas home cook-book (1879). The handwriting is the same though written with different pens. The recipes all have author attributions. The recipe is annotated in pencil to modify the measurements called for.

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Farer

Sarah Fisk

Mrs. Listees

Board of Managers for the benefit of the Home for the Friendless

The Kansas home cook-book

Crew & Bro

1879

Miss. Alice Phinney

Printed book

English

Manuscript recipe

American Antiquarian Society

This copy of The Kansas home cook-book is heavily annotated and includes both manuscript and newspaper insertions. The book is inscribed "Alice Phinney," though the last name is somewhat illegible and may be a different name. The inscription is dated Nov 30th, 1879.

Printed book