Hannah M. Keen's receipt book, UPenn Ms. Codex 633

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Hannah M. Keen lived at 3312 Race Street in West Philadelphia. Most recipes in this manuscript cookbook are for breads, puddings, pies, and cakes, including a "West Phila. Cake" and "Railroad Cake." The source for a number of the recipes is "Widdifield's," presumably Widdifield's new cook book: or, Practical receipts for the housewife by Hannah Widdifield published in Philadelphia in 1856. Other recipes are attributed to relatives, for example, Lucy H. Keen, and to Mary McIlvain and R. B. McIlvain. A section of recipes, "Preparations for the Sick," includes "Chicken Broth," "Cocoa," "Tapioca Jelly," "Egg and Milk," "Egg and Wine," "Carrageen or Irish Moss Jelly," and "Wine Whey." Also three leaves of newspaper clippings of household remedies and recipes pasted in and a printed broadsheet for "Wisconsin and Gem Graham Cakes," in an advertisement for Truman & Shaw hardware dealers of Philadelpia. The final recipe is "An Excellent Cement for seams in the roofs of houses." https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9923631383503681

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WM. M. CHRISTY, STATIONER, PRINTER, and Account Book Manufacturer, No. 65 South Third Street, Opposite Girard Park, Phila. Printing, Buling & Binding, neatly executed.

Hannah M. Keen Oakwood 10 mu 186 n/

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Minnie Farley 6.12.91

Ms Hannah M. Keen's Receipt Book

West Phila ~ 18 30 4.

Bristol Pa.

Ms. Codex 633

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Receipts for WISCONSIN & GEM GRAHAM CAKES,

Which agree with most dyspeptics, or persons of weakly digestive powers.

WISCONSIN CAKES, OR BRAN MUFFINS.-Take two tea-cups of unbolted flour and one cup of white wheat flour, two eggs and one pint of cold milk; beat the eggs and mix the whole well together, adding a little salt. Heat the pans quite hot before pouring in the mixture, putting a small piece of butter in each. Bake 15 or 20 minutes in a Wisconsin Cake Pan.

BRAN TRIFLES.-Take 1 quart of unbolted flour, 1 pint of water, and 2 teaspoonsful of salt; mix to a thick batter, and bake 20 mintues in a quick oven.

CORN WISCONSIN CAKES.-Take 1 quart of Indian meal, 1/2 teaspoonful of sofa, 1 egg (it is very good without it), and sour milk (or sweet milk with a teaspoonful cream tartar mixed in it) sufficient to make a batter; bake immediately in a Wisconsin Pan, well greased.

GEM GRAHAM CAKES.-Take 1 pint of milk, 1/2 pint Graham (bran) flour, 1/2 pint wheat flour, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 2 eggs; mix thoroughly. Heat and grease the pans, put in the batter, and bake immediately in a very hot oven.

The peculiar pans used for baking these cakes may be had from TRUMAN & SHAW, Hardware Dealers, No. 835 (Eight Thirty-five) Market St., bel. Ninth, PHILADELPHIA.

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Chicken Salad. Dorsey's Receipt To 10 pairs of chickens 5 Bottles of Oil 1 lb of Mustard 4 doz Boiled eggs, 1 doz raw do 1 lb. Cayene pepper Vinegar and Salt to taste.

Indian Bread. Beat two eggs very light--mix alternately with them one Pint of Sour Milk; or Buttermilk and one pint of fine Indian meal, melt one table spoon ful of Butter and add to the mixture dissolve one tea spoonful of Soda or salvatus, in a small portion of the milk, and add to the mixture the last thing. beat in a pan and Bake very hard in a quick oven -

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