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Cuaderno en que se contienen varios guisos de cocina para el uso de la casa de la S[eño]ra Doña Juana de las Cagigas.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1498
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Language:
Spanish
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Penn Provenance:
  • Written for use in the house of Juana de las Cagigas.
  • Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2009.
Physical Description:
109 leaves : paper ; 200-206 x 130-134 mm bound to 214 x 152 mm
Production:
[Mexico], 1820.
Language Note:
Spanish.
Summary:
Collection of recipes, including recipes for chicken, fish, and kid (goat) dishes; stews (estofados and guisos) and soups, including "French soup"; salads and other preparations of vegetables such as artichokes, squash, beets, sweet potatoes, and cauliflower; tortillas and arepas; empanadas, quesadillas, and tamales; fritters, cakes (biscochos and pasteles) and other sweets. Ingredients include chiles, adobo, oregano, almonds, avocados, rice, dates, lemons, coconut, and chocolate. The second half of the book, which follows a second 1820 title page (p. 121), is on different, slightly larger paper, and may be later than the first half.
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (p. [i]).
  • Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 108 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-95, [96-216]; contemporary and slightly later pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (some irregular early pagination between p. 98-123).
  • Script: Written in four or more cursive hands.
  • Decoration: Decorative lettering and simple ink frame and ornaments on title pages (p. [i], 121).
  • Binding: 20th-century cloth (Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts), with Recetas de cocina 1820 on spine.
  • Origin: Written in Mexico in 1820 (p. [i], 121).
  • A leaf containing copies of some 1920s correspondence laid in this cookbook has been filed under Jasfan in Miscellaneous Manuscripts.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1498
OCLC:
319638017

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