E. Macey recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Macey, E., active 1864-1910, compiler.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood (Exeter, UK), 18 March 2020, as part of Lot 439.

Physical Description:

1 volume (149 leaves) : paper ; 20 x 16 cm

Production:

England, 1864-1910.

Summary:

This volume contains 61 culinary, medicinal, and household recipes and a food diary from a vacation in Switzerland written and compiled in England and Switzerland by E. Macey between 1864 and 1910. The volume is bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. The only name included in this volume is that of E. Macey, but there are at least two hands that contribute recipes. The volume opens with an index (p. i), then contains recipes (p. 7-43), and a food diary from the creator’s travels in Rochebord and Clarens, Switzerland (p. 135-148). There are blank pages in the volume after the index (p. 1-6) and between the recipes and food diary (p. 44-134). There are additional recipes laid in to the volume (p. 135-136, 149). Several of the recipes in the volume are attributed to individuals including Mrs. Cuckoo (p. 21), Annie Martin (p. 23), Mrs. Macey (p. 25), Dr. Pallison (p. 26), Dr. Mandarin Aigle (p. 27), Mrs. Peckey (p. 27), D. Barnard (p. 28), Mrs. Wright (p. 30), Mrs. Rowland Houghton of Cardiff (p. 32), and Mrs. Walmsley of St. Ann’s Vicarage, Nottingham (p. 39). Examples of recipes in this volume include duchess pudding (p. 11), Everton toffee and hard bake (p. 14), gooseberry vinegar (p. 19), ginger beer (p. 21), fever medicine (p. 24), sure cure for hooping cough (whooping cough) (p. 24), for bed-sores (p. 26), to make beef tea rich in phosphates (p. 32), marrow (p. 35), and medlar jelly (p. 42).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

E. Macey Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2187). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1501130770