The name Mrs. Sparkman is written in pencil on the inside front cover, circa 1850-1870.

Recipes include: Mrs. Adams mince meat, Champagne punch, Black Cake, Ginger Nuts, Spanish Buns, Jumbles, Maccaroons, Plum Pudding, Puff Paste, Pine Apple Punch, Drop Cakes, Tomato Catsup, Tea Drop Cakes or Cup Cakes, Mulled Wine, Terrapins, Peach Mangoes, Pickles Oysters, Grated Cucumbers, Fanny CSheldons?) recipe for Gingerbread, Cymbals, Elder Blossom wine, Wine dip, puff pudding, egg nogg, To make yeast, Pepper Pot, Caramels, Miss Adams Cake, Cora's lady cake, Chowder, Annies Yeast. Note: the pepper pot is Philadelphia style

Blue paper covers, lightly ruled lightly blue papers. There are 15 pages of which all are written.