Circa 1840-1850. German American. A very interesting "family treasure" type of book. Originally handwritten by a very legible steady hand in the mid19th century. The book was used up until pre-World War times. Some recipes from 1912 were handwritten with pencil. The book contains a number of clippings, mostly from German newspapers dating from the second half of the 19th century and has more than a dozen recipes on different types of paper pasted into the book through several decades. Some of the latest clippings are from German American newspapers with some English language advertisements in the text. The original book contains recipes for well known German pastries, cookies, and cakes, such as zwieback from yeast dough (a twice baked hardtack) type of bread. Oatmeal cookies, instant cookies, anise bread, kugelhuf, etc. are also included.