Cookbook of culinary, medical, and household recipes : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--19th century.

Cooking, English.

Traditional medicine--19th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Traditional medicine.

Toilet preparations--19th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Toilet preparations.

Knitting--19th century.

Knitting.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

prescriptions.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Label inside front cover: Sold by Thurnam, Carlisle (printer and stationer Charles Thurnam & Sons).

Sold by Alastor Rare Books (Lymington, England), 2017.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 21 x 17 cm + 4 leaves

Production:

England, circa 1849-1892.

Summary:

Bound volume with worn, marbled paper covers and ruled leaves comprising handwritten culinary recipes, household formulas, and medicinal remedies. Spanning the years from circa 1849 to 1892, this book was written in black ink in at least two hands, probably at Carlisle, England. Some recipes are dated with attributions. The culinary recipes included in the volume are for making biscuits, cakes, creams, desserts, savory and sweet jams and jellies, pickling, and puddings. There is a large variety of pudding recipes throughout and a few curry recipes for eggs and lentils. Some recipes are for drinks such as cooling drinks, ginger beer, ginger wine, herbal teas, and lemonade. Starting from the back and reading to the center of the volume are medicinal formulas for burns, bruises, cholera, colds, coughs, cuts, infant food, sore throats, sprains, rheumatism, and thrush. Toiletry formulas for cold cream, gargles, hair pomade, lotions, and salves are also contained in the volume. There are a few household recipes for blacking, cleaning, making asphalt, and poisoning bugs. Instructions for knitting items such as woolen shoes are in the volume. Names attributed to some recipes in the volume include Ann Maury, Ann Ruston, and Mary Wakefield. Two notes in a different hand at the bottom of one recipe are dated 1922 and 1924. Four leaves of recipes have been laid in the volume. Several leaves at the center of the volume are detached.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Cookbook of Culinary, Medical, and Household Recipes (Ms. Codex 1811). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

974909004

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