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[RECEIPT BOOK] A quarto notebook, neatly penned by Elizabeth Buchanan who has inscribed her name and date "Petersburg, May 22 1789" to front free endpaper, with a 10-page list of contents under the headings "Bacon," "Butter," "Cakes," "Cheese," "Cream," "Bread," "Custard," "Caudles," "Cakes of Fruit or Sweetmeats," Fritters," "Fish," "Fowls," "Jellies," "Loaves," "Mutton & Lamb," "Puddings," "Possets," "Pork," "Pies," "Pickles,""Preserves," "Sauces," "Sillabubs," Vegetables," "Veal," and "Venison," the contents numbered to 241 pages. The oppposite end of the book with recipes for drink and cordials, inscribed on front blank and free endpaper "Elizabeth Buchanan Nov. 1 1788" and "Eliza Buchanan Petersburg April 15th 1790," with a separate contents page, and receipts numbered to page 17, the two parts of the book separated by a few blank leaves, contemporary vellum (worn).

细节
[RECEIPT BOOK] A quarto notebook, neatly penned by Elizabeth Buchanan who has inscribed her name and date "Petersburg, May 22 1789" to front free endpaper, with a 10-page list of contents under the headings "Bacon," "Butter," "Cakes," "Cheese," "Cream," "Bread," "Custard," "Caudles," "Cakes of Fruit or Sweetmeats," Fritters," "Fish," "Fowls," "Jellies," "Loaves," "Mutton & Lamb," "Puddings," "Possets," "Pork," "Pies," "Pickles,""Preserves," "Sauces," "Sillabubs," Vegetables," "Veal," and "Venison," the contents numbered to 241 pages. The oppposite end of the book with recipes for drink and cordials, inscribed on front blank and free endpaper "Elizabeth Buchanan Nov. 1 1788" and "Eliza Buchanan Petersburg April 15th 1790," with a separate contents page, and receipts numbered to page 17, the two parts of the book separated by a few blank leaves, contemporary vellum (worn).
来源
Provenance: Eliza Buchanan (several inscriptions); later inscriptions by members of the Buchanan family. Beneath her inscription to the cookery section, Eliza Buchan has also written: "Eliza Buchan came to Peterg. to live June 1st 1788." A grand-daughter has written beneath: "Elizabeth Buchanan was my paternal grandmother -- D. W. R. Buchanan. She was a daughter of William of Mount Alta Virginia U.S. A. She died at Brighton 23rd July 1800 aged 29." Eliza Buchanan would therefore have written or at least commenced the receipt book at the age of 17 or 18, presumably when living at Petersburg in the United States.