William A. Baker Recipe Book I'm interested in this source because it includes recipes for not just food, but also cosmetics, medicinal remedies, and utilities. Mrs. Garrow family recipe book There are a lot of interesting recipes in this book, as well as illustrations which I thought were particularly intriguing.
The Virginia G. Gray Cookery Collection focuses on recipes throughout the nineteenth century, specifically focusing on desserts and jellies. In the context of history, this collection primarily focuses on the time period before the Civil War in the 1830s, a time in history that I think is important to recognize since often being overshadowed by the Civil War. Additionally, since a part of our final project is to cook something from our primary source, I am more inclined to cook and eat something dessert oriented.
The main source I would like to use for my final paper is the primary source telling all of the watermen in Virginia and where they are from. I would like to use this source because a lot of people in my family are watermen in Virginia. Most of my family is from Virginia and I was looking through the source to see if I could see any watermen from where they are from and I did.
Source: Emma Jane's Souvenir Cookbook and Some Old Virginia Recipes I chose this sources because its preface, advice from Emma Jane to new wives, contained a lot of interesting material related to gender norms at the time the cookbook was written.
Onoto Watanna & Bosse, Sara. 1914. Chinese-Japanese Cook Book. Applewood Books.
The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical cook. I chose this source because it gives an insight into what roles women were given around 15 years before the Civil War. 1846 Another source is "Good Housekeeping." This source has large amounts of information on everything kitchen-related, spanning from recipes to cleaning supplies, specifically pertaining to women and their roles.
Good Housekeeping magazine - since I see food as a portion of life during this time, I thought it would be cool to analyze a book that shows food's role in hospitality. Unlike other sources, this book is easy to read and in excellent condition, making it easier to find information. Traditions of Virginia hospitality and old Williamsburg cookery - going on with the theme of hospitality, this book talks about how cooking works together with hospitality in Virginia, which is what I plan to write about.
One thing that I was thinking about analyzing were the stereographic pictures. I thought that they were very interesting in the way it manages to make you feel the photo is 3D. There was also a lot of emphasis on oysters which was interesting to me, as I've never had them.
"The Parish House Cookbook: not a reservoir of basic culinary lore for a bride who want to learn to cook - but a collection of the choicest recipes of a group famed as providers of memorable food" I chose this source because the combination of different handwritings coming together to make a cookbook for a bridge joining a family is a really interesting topic to me. I want to focus on marriage and the inheritance of family recipes on the South, as well as hand-written recipes documenting several different family's recipes.
Soul Food by Adrian Miller There are a couple sources from the library I found very interesting and I am still deciding on which one to use for my project. But I am leaning towards this book because I think it would have a lot to research and dive into. I can't wait to keep looking into it!
Virginia Cookery Book: Traditional Recipes by League of Women voters of Virginia. I chose this source because the ads in the cookbook interested me, as League of Women voters of Virginia used them to get the book published because they self published it.
Virginia League of Women Voters cookbook, because I would like to compare the recipes, especially in terms of preparation and ingredients, with a suffragist cookbook I found through an online database to examine the concept of an 'efficient housewife'.
I would like to use the Harriet P Sheldon Recipe book and the Galt Papers. Both these sources help show life in the south during the mid 1800's. It talks about food and housekeeping which are vital things to show how life was in the south.
The source I plan to analyze was a cookbook titled Arachis Hypogaea that was published during WW2 that included many peanut recipes. I chose this source because I found it interesting how these recipes mainly targeted southerners who happened to embrace peanuts during this war era. I did notice how most peanuts were not grown in the south and I want to know more about why it was such a southern tradition.
I'm planning to use the W&M home economics document from Special Collections, because I've always been interested in that class and what it taught, as well as what it instilled in women specifically. I just think it's really cool.