Nova Scotia Archives
What's Cooking?
Food, Drink and the Pleasures of Eating in Old-Time Nova Scotia
Diagram of arrangement of food on the Supper Table, Queen's Ball, Halifax
The Almon Scrapbook was compiled by Senator William Johnstone Almon, M.D., (1816-1901) and later continued by his granddaughter Susanna Almon. The contents include information on the Almon family and other notable early New England and Nova Scotia families and date from the early 1700s to the 1940s.This eclectic scrapbook has vital statistics, engravings, lithographs, photographs, broadsides, letters, invitations, maps and newspaper clippings. Two pages include hand written recipes for cymballs, hasty pudding, mutton, plum cake, rice cake and blackberry jam (page 120) and for almond pudding, roast pig, mangoes, plum cake, cake, and pickled beef (page 122).
Date: 18 January 1785
Reference: Almon Scrapbook Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 14