Though their forms have changed since the 18th century, handwritten recipes and household books remain mines of information about how women cooked and where they may have learned recipes. The boiled coffee notes are from the lectures of Sarah Tyson Rorer (1849-1937), a Philadelphia cookbook author and principal of the Philadelphia Cooking School.
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