Hardcover notebook. It contains handwritten cooking recipes by Charikleia Cavafy. It also includes three pieces of paper with recipes, in another handwriting. The sheets after the 16th are blank, except for three which contain lists of household expenses in different handwriting. The last list pertains to the 1867-1868 period. On the inside of the cover the names of two housekeepers who worked in Charikleia's house in the years 1888 and 1892 are mentioned.