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Other names: Chase, Alvin Wood
Chase, Alvan Wood
Birthdate: 1817
Date of death: 1885-05-25
Burial location: Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Cayuga County, New York, USA
Place of death: Toledo, Ohio, USA
Places of residence: Buffalo, New York, USA
Dresden, Ohio, USA
Toledo, Ohio, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Education: Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute
Occupations: physician
writer
printer
newspaper owner

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Dr. Chase's recipes ; or, information for everybody… by A. W. Chase

Frontispiece is engraved view of the University of Michigan from the northwest. Includes engraved depiction of Dr. Chase's offices, corner of Catherine and Main Sts., Ann ArborEx libris Mrs. Andrew Hitchcock.

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ME_Dictionary | 4 other reviews | Mar 20, 2020 |

Dr. Chase's Third, Last, and Complete Receipt Book… by A. W. Chase

The book itself is endearing, and a picture of an earlier time, but I love this book for many reasons. I cannot imagine how many households this went through before it came into my hands, but the important things are not just what's in its pages. There are various recipes, and notes, placed in the pages, including recipes, and shopping lists, and an article from 1936 on two methods for measuring hay.

I should really take out the old recipes, scan them, and put them in plastic sleeves, so that they won't disintegrate.

I wouldn't recommend trying any of the suggested medical offerings, but the recipes published in the book are fine (as are the lovely handwritten ones that that came with my book).

Link to Dr Chase's venture, the Steam Printing House:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?view=entry&subview=detail&am...

(It's copyrighted, or I'd have added it to his page)

Link that doesn't really fit on his author page.

http://aaobserver.aadl.org/aaobserver/17605… (more)

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Lyndatrue | 1 other review | Jan 6, 2014 |

Dr. Chase's recipes;: Or, information for e… by A. W Chase

This is a battered hulk of a book, minus covers and spine. But the contents - ah, a gold mine of ancient remedies, recipes and advice!

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MerryMary | 4 other reviews | Dec 19, 2007 |

Dr. Chase's Recipes; or, Information for Everybody,… by A. W. Chase

This is a good book if you have a brain. The cooking recipes need some working out, as only the ingredients and some advice is provided. The method of preparation is usually absent. A period dictionary may be needed to decipher some of the terminology.

My favorite recipe is the one for a skin cream that requires you cook two toads in boiling water. It says that "this is the most humane way to kill them." Don't worry, only the toads juices are needed.

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fullyarmedvishnu | 4 other reviews | Nov 26, 2006 |

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