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Title

Account book and recipe book

Authors

• Clymer family
• Clymer, Daniel Cunyngham, 1748-1810

Call number

Ms. Coll. 387
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178088
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178088

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1788-1854

Place

Pennsylvania

Summary

Begins as receipt book of Daniel Clymer (probably Daniel Cunyngham Clymer) lawyer in Berks County, Pa. with receipts dated 1788-1798 and bearing the signatures of Jacob Harvey, Anna Gibson, John Jennings, John Pierce, John D. Coxe, Morris Shipley, Mary Head, John Hart, Sarah Moore, and Daniel Rafe, among others. Volume continues in other hands, predominantly that of M. Clymer with entries dated ca. 1823-1846. Many of these entries are accounts of wages paid to workers for spinning wool and flax, also for farm labor, e.g. butchering, and accounts for farm commodities including grain, butter, eggs, candles, etc. Also includes culinary recipes in the hand of M. Clymer for beer, cakes, lemon cream, lemon syrup, icing, ice cream, quince cordial, and to cure shad and herring; plus medicinal recipes for dropsy, cough, tetter, and for deafness from a cold; and a number of veterinary recipes. Additional culinary recipes are in other hands, one dated 1854. Also includes notes about family members written by M. Clymer around 1841 describing activities of Daniel R. Clymer, William H. Clymer, Edward M. Clymer, and Mary Clymer from around 1831 (the year their father died) to 1841 and mentioning cousin Isaac Hiester and aunts and uncles in the Eckert family.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Nine leaves are laid in including one signed by D. Clymer in Reading, Pa., July 17, 1787; others are receipts and culinary recipes in other hands.
   

Extent

97 leaves ; 202 x 102 mm. bound to 213 x 109 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 97; [1-97]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Moderate oxidation of ink in some places; a number of leaves are cut or torn out.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary suede.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Sold by The Reynolds, 2001.
   

Subjects topical

• Agricultural wages--Pennsylvania--Berks County--19th century
• Cooking, American
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Veterinary prescriptions
• Wages--Textile workers--Pennsylvania--Berks County--19th century

Genres

• Account books
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, American--18th century
• Manuscripts, American--19th century

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