Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Recipe cards, Victorian Department of Public Instruction, 1917
... J.H.Boyd Girls' High School... is missing. Light green insert: 'With compliments of J.H.Boyd Girls... (?) Montague Domestic Arts School J.H.Boyd Girls' High School First set ...
Two sets of student cookery cards, Victorian Dept of Public Instruction 1917, each numbering from 1 to 30, bound together with string between covers from an old exercise book. First set separated, tied at top with cord; second set bound into the 'covers' with string in two places. Exercise book identified as IL? Class, 5th grade Albert Park School and dated 13.3.17. Used by the Scobie girls. Covers had been jointed with linen tape but back one is missing. Light green insert: 'With compliments of J.H.Boyd Girls' High School'First set of cards is labelled 'Daisy Scobie'. Second set stamped on all pages, 'Louis. Scobie'. Many recipes annotated in pencil, other recipes added etc. On front cover in ink:' '13.3.17' 'IL(?) Class' '5th' 'Albert Park'. On first card: 'Daisy Scobie/cooking School/Montague ---/ South Melbourne'. Inserted compliments slip signed in ink, 'J.T. Dalman/per committee'domestic life, education - secondary schools, daisy scobie, louise scobie (?), montague domestic arts school, j.h.boyd girls' high school