Nova Scotia Archives
What's Cooking?
Food, Drink and the Pleasures of Eating in Old-Time Nova Scotia
Sponge Jelly Cake, Boiled Icing, Chocolate Cake, Cracker Pudding, Bread Pudding, To Bake Apples, Salad Dressing, Coconut Cake, Chocolate Custard
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. A number of recipes were clipped from newspapers.
Date: 1881
Reference: Miller family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 693 folder 3