McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Culinary, medicinal, and household recipes
File
24 leaves
File consists of approximately 65 undated chiefly culinary recipes, with some medical content. Some recipes are included as parts of letters addressed to Mrs. Williamson. One recipe is signed by Mrs. Warde (carrot pudding). Some dishes represented in the recipes include: marmelade, raisin wine, yeast (3 recipes), apple jelly, beer, preserved eggs, spanish, spanish butter, blancmange, rice balls, biscuits, scotch eggs, and brandy cream. There is also one loose recipe for furniture polish. One item in the file is a soft bound notebook containing 7 leaves with recipes for mulligatawny soup, veal, fowl, and mutton dishes, Flemish soup, muffin pudding, "pease pudding", black pudding, and lemon pudding. The last page includes with medical recipes, including vinegar, a remedy for gout, and a treatment to prevent infection.
One recipe on laid paper with watermark "1826" (recipe for raisin wine, folded and addressed to Mrs. Williamson).