Mary Belin du Pont recipe book
Creation: circa 1870s-1900sAbstract
Mary Belin (1839-1913) married Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) and had eleven children, many who were prominent in the building up of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The collection includes a carbon copy of a typed transcript from Belin's recipe book. The recipe book included dishes typical of middle class Americans in the Northeast in the early and mid-nineteenth century, as well as home remedies, household hints, and how to prepare paints and dyes.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s-1900s
Creator
- Du Pont, Mary (Belin), 1839-1913 (Person)
Extent
1 item(s) (1 item in folder)
Biographical Note
Mary Belin (1839-1913) married Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) and had eleven children, many who were prominent in the building up of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
Belin was the daughter of Henry H. Belin (1803-1891) and Isabell d'Andelot (1812-1863). Her father was the main bookkeeper for the DuPont Company. Belin married Lammot du Pont in 1865. Lammot was killed by a nitroglycerin explosion in 1884, leaving behind ten, soon to be eleven, children and his wife.
The couple had eleven children: Louisea D'Andelot (1868-1926), Pierre Samuel (1870-1954), Sophie Madeline (1871-1894), Henry Belin (1873-1902), William Kemble (1875-1907), Irenee (1876-1963), Mary Alletta Belin (1878-1938), Lammot (1880-1952), Isabella Mathieu (1882-1946), and Margaretta Lammot (1884-1973).
Belin died June 13, 1913 in Wilmington, Delaware. She had suffered a broken hip in a fall at her home and never recovered from the injury.
Scope and Contents
The book consists of a carbon copy of a typed transcript from Mary Belin du Pont's (1839-1913) recipe book. They are typical of the dishes enjoyed by middle class Americans in the Northeast in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Some recipes appear to have been taken from newspaper columns that were originally clipped by Mary Belin's mother, Isabella. In addition to dishes such as calves' foot jelly, flannel cakes, potato pudding, ginger beer, turtle soup, johnny cake, jumbles, flummery, potted shad and blanc mange, there are a variety of home remedies, household hints on washing and cleaning, and how to prepare paints and dyes.
Existence and Location of Copies
View this collection online in the Hagley Digital Archives.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access; this collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Subjects
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Mary Belin du Pont recipe book
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2021: Ashley Williams
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
