Hare family recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Hare, Mrs., active 1801-1821, compiler.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

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

Medicine.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

codices (bound manuscripts)

prescriptions.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Forum Auctions (London, England), 2020.

Physical Description:

1 volume (279 pages) : 20 x 6 cm + 16 leaves

Production:

Bath, England, circa 1801-1821.

Summary:

This volume contains 405 culinary, medical, and household recipes created or compiled by Mrs. Hare of 6 Somerset Place in Bath, England between 1801 and 1821. It is bound in full original parchment and has several newspaper clippings adhered to the front pastedown and endleaf. The orientation of the writing flips on page 259. This volume is written in multiple hands, two of which are clearly distinct though there could be several others. Mrs. Hare’s hand appears in the first portion of the volume (p. 10-75) and sporadically throughout the rest of the volume. A second, unidentified, hand appears at the beginning of the volume (p. 1-10) and is the dominant hand in the second portion of the volume (p. 76-277).These recipes are attributed to various members of the Hare family, to friends and acquaintances from Bath, to newspapers, and to notable figures of the time. Those identified from the Hare family include R. [Robert] Hare (pastedown and laid in leaf), Miss Martha Hare (p. 3, 75, and 156), Rich [Richard] Hare (p. 102 and 175), and Mrs. James Hare (p. 103). Recipes from friends and acquaintances include blacking “from my Servant John Hyder Alley” (p. 98), Lady Anne Talbot’s apple pudding (p. 142), and several from partially identified individuals including Mrs. Goddard, Mrs. Rodgers, and others. Recipes from notable figures include Dr. William Oliver’s biscuits (p. 51) and Sally Lunn’s buns (p. 74). Examples of the broad range of recipes in this volume include those for mead (p. 3), macaroni (p. 16), cures for deafness (p. 37), mahogany polish (p. 45), Bridges’ Tincture (p. 46), candy ginger (p. 65), marking ink (p. 77), remedy for a tooth ache (p. 197), and cayenne pepper gargle (p. 218).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Hare family Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2119). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1390589084