The exhibit To Keep a Home: Advice to Women on the Domestic Arts, 1870-1960 was on display on both UNE campuses in 2015 and 2016. The exhibit consisted of materials pulled from MWWC periodicals, the book collection, and numerous manuscript collections. Included in the physical exhibit were the personal recipe books of Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat and Elizabeth Coatsworth, along with Marie Donahue's Gold Medal Flour cookbook. Only a portion of the materials in the exhibit have been digitized.
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The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints
Pages 426-429 of The Godey's Lady's Book of Receipt and Household Hints: Culinary Couplets and Proportionate Weights and Measures. To see all pages, go here.
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Reflection
Plate at front of October 1874 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, showing thoughtful woman writing.
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The Teakettle: A Collection of Recipes for Cooking
Pages 15-16 of The Teakettle: A Collection of Recipes for Cooking. Includes recipes for macaroni with cheese, macaroni with oysters, asparagus, white sauce, beets, baked pork and beans, and venison.
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The Practical Housekeeper
Page 20 from Ladies' Home Journal (1890 September) containing recipes and cooking advice.
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Womanhood
Poem titled "Womanhood" by Ella S. Elliott from page 4 of Ladies' Home Journal, 1892 June.
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The Economist, a Practical, Common Sense Book Containing Tested and Proved Recipes
Several pages (2-3, 16, 57, 58) of The Economist, a Practical, Common Sense Book Containing Tested and Proved Recipes, containing advertisements, recipes and "How to Cook Husbands." To see all the pages, go here.
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A Book of Dorcas Dishes: Family Recipes Contributed by the Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton
Pages 4-9 of A Book of Dorcas Dishes: Family Recipes Contributed by the Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton. Inlcudes The Praise and Properties of a Good Wife and part of the Introduction. To see all pages, go here.
