The recipes are dated 1934, 1855, and 1864. It is written in two directions; the first half is all recipes and the second half is odds and ends, mostly recipes, medical advice, and medical recipes, although some household recipes and knitting instructions are included.

The locations mentioned in the book include Philadelphia, Roxbury, and Berwick, Maine. There are also a few knitting patterns and recipes from the New York Observer.

Recipes include: alamode beef, Cook a Turkey; cook a Pig, A line of Veal, Calves Head, clean a Calves Head, dress a leg of Mutton with caper sauce, roast a leg of mutton, fry Veal, Veal Gutlets, roast Duck, Veal Cutlets another way, roast leg of Pork, Chicken pie, Turtle Calves head, Mrs. Simes' Soup, Curry Chicken, Cook a French dish, Salsaper Sauce, Plum Pudding, Lemon Pudding, Potatoe-apple pudding, Pumpkin pudding, Malborough Pudding, Carrot Pudding, Butter Pudding, Quaking Pudding, Plum Pudding, Arrow roots or potatoe starch do, Custards, Composition Cake, French Cake, Sponge Cake, Gingerbread, another kind of Gingerbread, Cider Cake, Common Cake, Trifles, Cup Cake, Another kind of Cup Cake, Buns, Maccaroon Cakes, Cookies, Drops, Seed Cake, Little White Cakes, A good way for plumb Cake, Election Cake, Another way for Election Cake, Bath biscuit, Mrs. West's Biscuit, sugar Biscuit, Another kind of seed cake, Flannel Cakes, Rice Cakes, Jumbles, Birds nest Pudding, Cookies another kind, Rusk, Mrs. Coffin Wedding Cake 1834, Frosting, Maccaroons, Buttermilk Cakes, Temperance Cake, Hard Gingerbread, Jumbles, Potatoe Nuts, Common loaf berry cake, Kisses, Paste cakes, Nuts, making bread, Diet Bread, Plumb Cake, Sauce for pudding, Common Cymballs, Cider Cake, Apple jumbles, Charlotte de'Ruse, Rice Cakes, Economy Breakfast cakes, Cup Cake, Cream of Tartar Biscuit, Trifles, Lemon Pudding, Orange Pudding, Lemon Cream, Apple pudding, Sago Pudding, Trifles, Lemon Cake, Milk biscuits, Spanish fritters, Icing for cakes, Ginger Nuts, Buns, Democrats, Taffeta, Sally Lunns, Spanish Buns, Oysters, Lemon Puffs, Chocolate biscuit, Pastry, Roman punch, sherry cobblers, Sauce for puddings, Lemon Cream, Calves foot Jelly, floating Island, cobblers, Sauce for puddings, Lemon Cram, Calves foot Jelly, floating Island, Molasses Gingerbread, Sponge Bread, Pound Cake, Sponge Cake, Artificial Oysters, Rich apple pudding, Rice mow balls, Tomato Catsup, White sauce for boiled fowls, Egg sauce, Rolls, Gingerbread, Stewed Oysters, Snaps, Drop Cakes, Cream Cakes, Washington Pies, Quince Marmalade, Suet-Dumplings, Hard Gingerbread, Midge Cake, Ice creams, New kind of cake, Frosting, Cocoa Nut Cakes, Batter Pudding, Cocoa Nut Cake, Almond Cake, Jumbles, Conserve of Peaches, Peach Leather, Cocoa Nut Pudding, Rye Cake, Corn soup, Chicken Soup, Harrico Muttons, Vegetable Soup for invalids, Egg & Milk ('for invalids), essence of Beef (for invalids), Pork Cake, Croquets, Morange Pudding, tea buscuits, Clam Soup, Waffles, Corn Egg bread, Muffins, Arrow root Jelly, Buns-(from Phila), Sponge Cake, Dough Nuts, Gingerbread, Yeast, Quince Marmalade, Tomato Catsup, Tomato Catsup, Grape jelly, Tomato Joy, Cocoa Nut macaroons, Picadilly, Good breadfast Cake, Ice Cream, Tomato Pickles, Maryland biscuits, Cream Pudding, Buns, Cup Cake, Spiced Tomatoes, Artificial Oysters, Corn bread, For keeping butter sweet, Boiled Indian Bread, Baked Beans (From The New York Observer), Musk Biscuits, Molasses Gingerbread, Apple Cake, Corn Cake, Nice Sugar Gingerbread, Buns, Cream Cake, Cake, Good Plain Cakes, Cup Cakes, Varieties, Buns, Sugar Snaps, Cream Cakes, small sponge Cakes, Cookies, Soft Gingerbreads, Marble Cake, Muffins, Sauce, Apple Jelly, Mock Cream, Apple floats, Squash fritters, Buckwheats, relish, Croquette, Beef Croquettes, To warm cold meat, Lobster Salad, Chicken Salad, Spiced Currants, Cream Pie, Batter Pudding, Apple Pudding, Lemon Pie, Ginger Snaps, Calves feet Jelly, Blanc Monge, good Sauce, Lemon Cream, Whipt Syllabub, Sauces, Currant Jelly, Blanc Monge, Apple Jelly, preserve Citron Melon, Very light paste, preserve Peaches, Coffee Cakes, Mountain Cakes, Snow or lemon Sponges, Floating Island, Apple/Custard Pudding, Pudding Sauces, Boiled Indian Pudding, Corn Starch Cake, Cocoa Nut drops, Hard gingerbreads, Common Sponge Cakes, Hard gingerbread, Ground rice Griddle Cakes, Apple Floats, Velvet Cream, Feather Cake, Black Cake, Quince for the Table, Mock apple pie, Tip Top Cake, Dough Nuts, Love Cake, Home Cafe Bavaroise, Apple Champagne, Apple Sago Pudding, Turkey Soup, Dropped Egg, Superior-Dressing for Chicken Salad., Rusk, Black Cake, To preserve eggs, Cream pies, Yeast (Won't Sour), Stewed Lobster, Common Cake, Sponge Cake, Gingerbread, Snow Pudding, Cup pudding, Blancmange of Corn starch, White Almond Cake, Cocoanuts snaps, Blanc mange, Malborough pudding, Dressing for salad, Sponge Cake, Ice cream, Chocolate Blancmange, Popovers, Corn cakes, St. Charles' Indian bread; Cherry bounce, Gingerbread. The second set of directions for odds & ends includes: Method of Cleaning Alabaster, To dye black, for a Cold, For a Sprain, Table Beer, Tansy Syrup, For washing Clothes, destroy Bed Bugs, picke Walnuts, cleaning Mahogony, Pot Ash Soap, Panado, Sago, English Barley water, Compound lime water, For the Piles, To check vomiting, diarehea, dyspeptic pill, For Cushion beds, cleaning Stoves, To take out mildow, for Croup, Cure Warts, Red Ants, Cure for whooping Cough, Soup for an invalid, Blackberry Syrup, Fig paste, Hair oil, parsnips, To clean black satin, Ginger Pop, Spruce Beer, Common made Beer, To make paint without white lead & oil, Cologne water, White wash that will not rub off, To polish stoves, All healing salve, Inflammed eyes, Lemon syrup, Tomato Catsup, To wash white Merino shawls, cure for Sprains, cure a Felon, Starch for muslins, laces, &c, for Inflamatory Rheumatism, Recipe for Colouring Green, To Crystalize flowers, Out door whitewash, Another recipe for whitewash, A fire proof and Water proof Cement, To take the stain from Silver plate.