Receipts of pastry and cookery : for the use of his scholars / by Ed. Kidder.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kidder, E. (Edward), 1665 or 1666-1739, author.

Contributor:

Aresty, Esther B., former owner.

Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

cookbooks

recipes

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.

Physical Description:

37 leaves : paper ; 182 x 117 (165 x 113) mm bound to 187 x 123 mm

Place of Publication:

[England], [between 1700 and 1725]

Summary:

Recipe book with a printed title page and manuscript collection of recipes. There is a table of contents for the various sections (p. 70) which include recipes for pies, pastries, cakes, broths, dressing fish, collaring, potting, pickling, and making jellies.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from printed title page, possibly from London, that reads in full: Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars by Ed. Kidder; who teacheth at his school on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, in the afternoon, in St. Martin's Le Grand; and on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, in the afternoon, at his school next to Furnival's Inn in Holborn; and ladies may be taught at their own houses.

Pagination: Paper, i + 37 + i; [iii], 1-66, [67-71]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one recipe in a second hand (p. 71).

Binding: 18th-century[?] stamped leather, with gilt stamped title on spine: Kidder Receipts.

Origin: Written in England in the first quarter of the 18th century (Aylin Malcolm and Margaret C. Maurer).

Cited in:

Described in Theophano, Janet. Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen, an exhibition of materials selected from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library, 1996) pp. 33-34 (No. 57).

Publications about:

Malcolm, Aylin, and Margaret C. Maurer. "Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts," Renaissance Studies 40.2 (April 2026), 231-253.

Cited as:

E. Kidder, Receipts of Pastry (Ms. Codex 625). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155972652

Online:

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