Nova Scotia Archives
What's Cooking?
Food, Drink and the Pleasures of Eating in Old-Time Nova Scotia
Temperance Gingerbread, Composition Cake, Dutch Pan Cake, Quince Preserve, Ginger Beer, Icing from Mrs. Glasse, cooking Vegetable Oyster Plant, Custards, Pickling Beef, Curing Hams, Soda Cake, German Method of Curing Hams, Gingerbread Without Eggs, Butter Biscuits, boiling Greens and Beans, Arrow Root Cake Mrs. Pernette
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The MacGregor Miller 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. The 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. One folder includes a small bound notebook with initials F[?] S.M., Halifax, July 1836.
Date: 1836
Reference: Miller family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 693 folder 3