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Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Text A handwritten mathematical primer dates to the time that the Nashville Female Academy was in existence, from 1816 to soon after the end of the Civil War. There is one date in the book for "1863 June" on one of the recipe pages, though the primer may date to an earlier year. The verso of the leaves have recipes written on them, such as Recipes for pickles, French tooth powder, Current jelly, Tobacco water (is good to destroy insects on plants), Grape lotion for sunburn and freckles, Dough nuts, Strawberry ice cream, Harrison cakes, Recipes from Jane Melton, Lady fingers, Sally Lunn, and Crulls. The mathematical primer includes mathematical concepts and word problems dealing with tea, bolts of cloth, fish, sailing vessels, and bread Mary Louisa Lientz
Type
text
Format
168 p. ; 21 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb45507438
Language
English
Subject
Cooking, American Mathematics--Study and teaching Cooking Nashville (Tenn.)
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