This collection contains four booklets containing handwritten recipes. One booklet identifies the owner as Sarah H. Woods from "Medway." One bound manuscript, entitled "Recipe Book," consists of mostly handwritten recipes. The front cover and inside back cover indicate the owner of this recipe book was Elizabeth A. White of Winchester, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland. The published cookbooks were cataloged separately to form the Shillinglaw Book Collection.

This collection consists of two bound ledger books and two folders of materials pertaining to the cookbook collection. The folders contain press releases, correspondence, and bibliographical information about the books. The published cookbooks were cataloged separately to form the Shillinglaw Book Collection.