Recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Stevens-Cox, James, 1910-1997, former owner.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Medicine--19th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Forum Auctions, 2020.

Formerly owned by James Stevens Cox, Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians.

Physical Description:

1 volume (160 leaves) : 8 x 21 cm

Production:

England, circa 1815-1831.

Summary:

This volume contains 144 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes created or compiled approximately between 1815 and 1831 in England. The volume is bound in quarter leather and has a pocket on the front pastedown containing a clipping about what to put in flower vases in the winter and recipes for lemonade and lemon cheesecake. The creator provided original pagination for a small portion of the volume (p. 1-14), the remainder of the pagination was supplied by the cataloger (p. i-xxi, 15-160). Before the recipes in this volume is a copy of William Fleetwood Varley’s “A few observations on art with notices relative to the various exhibitions, repositories of art, &c. &c.” (p. i-xxi). Several of this volume’s recipes are written in French (p. 20, 43, 45-48, 86-89, and 143). Some of the recipes are attributed to various individuals, including Dr. Bishop (p. 3), Miss Guille (p. 40, 145, and 159), Mr. Sausmarez (p. 43), Monsieur Espinasson (p. 47), Colonel de Havilland (p. 49), Aunt John (p. 51), Mrs. Barlow (p. 52), Mrs. Brett (p. 60), Reverend W. Heath (p. 74), Elizabeth Ellery (p. 77), Count Rumford (p. 100), Mrs. John Mansell (p. 120), Captain Appleton (p. 28 and 132), Mrs. Luckraft (p. 136), and Mrs. Frederick Price (p. 149). There is additionally a recipe from the creator’s “journey through Norway, Sweden, and Denmark” (p. 102-103) and advice for Cholera Morbus by Henry Hatford in the 20 October 1831 edition of the London Gazette. Examples of recipes include elixir for a toothache (p. 2), pig’s face cheese (p. 8), vespatro (p. 18), marmelade de pompom (p. 43), salmi (p. 45), Guernsey hearts (p. 59), mock turtle soup (p. 60), spiced round of beef (p. 74), beignets de pomme (p. 88-89), Napoleon’s pectoral pills (p. 91), stationery wood block (p. 114), for purifying the blood (p. 136), and to preserve furs and woolens from moths (p. 148).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2142). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1402048613