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Mary Belin du Pont recipe book
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Accession: 2458
Abstract:
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:
circa 1870s-1900s
