What's Cooking?

Food, Drink and the Pleasures of Eating in Old-Time Nova Scotia

Dr. Prescott's recipe from Miss E. Miller, Halifax, is among the recipes in the MacGregor Miller Collection. The collection includes correspondence, business records, duties of Justice of the Peace and church-related material of the Miller family - Jacob Miller, a German Loyalist from New York who settled in Halifax, his son, Garrett Miller (1770-1840) who married Elizabeth Pernette of LaHave, and Garrett's and Elizabeth's sons Garrett T.M. Miller, Jacob P. Miller and Joseph Miller who lived in Bridgewater, Lunenburg County. This collection also includes material on families connected through marriage - Pernette, Zouberbuhler, Erad, Allen, Aitken, Hall, Mack and Owen. There are two folders of recipes probably assembled over several generations, ca. 1816 to ca. 1886, and undoubtedly collected from family members, friends and acquaintances.

Date: 1844

Reference: Miller family Nova Scotia Archives  MG 1 vol. 693 folder 3