[Recipe book].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Hinde, Anne, 19th century, former owner.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

cookbooks

recipes

prescriptions

Manuscripts, English.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Anne Hinde (inscription dated 1832, inside front cover; one of the recipe sources is a Mrs. Hinde, f. 31r).

Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), catalog 19 (2014), number 21.

Physical Description:

83 leaves : paper ; 200 x 160 mm bound to 205 x 165 mm + 1 note

Production:

[England], [circa 1770]

Summary:

Collection of 156 numbered recipes, most with named sources. Two frequent sources are Mrs. Morland (Dorothy Morland, 1740-1823) of Capplethwaite Hall (Yorkshire) and Mrs. Morland of Court Lodge (Kent). Mrs. Matson and Mrs. Wilson, also cited as sources, are women from two families to whom the Morlands were related by marriage. Two recipes are from printed sources, an unidentified magazine (f. 13v) and newspaper (f. 73v). Few of the recipes are attributed to aristocratic households, although the ingredients called for and the variety of preparations suggest relative affluence. The recipes cover a wide range of dishes, including meats, fish, shellfish, savory and sweet puddings, other desserts, and wines. A brief section at the end contains a small number of additional recipes, mostly for household and medical preparations (f. 73-75, with at least one leaf missing both before and after f. 73). A recipe for lettuce soup written on a loose sheet is laid inside the lower cover.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 83; [1-83] (39-72, 76-83 blank), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) quarter sheep with comb-marbled paper covers; loss of leather along spine (Gedge).

Origin: Written in England, circa 1770 (Gedge).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1727.

OCLC:

927807161

Access Restriction:

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