Mary Duckering Robinson recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Mary Duckering, 1796-1826, compiler.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Dyes and dyeing.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Pharmacy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Forum Auctions (London, England), lot 55, 2020 March 27.

Physical Description:

1 volume (90 pages) ; 21 x 17 cm

Production:

Alford, England, 1796-1826.

Summary:

This volume contains 133 culinary, medicinal, household, and veterinary recipes written and compiled by Mary Duckering Robinson in Tothby, Alford, England between 1796 and 1826. There is cataloger-supplied pagination in this volume due to significant gaps in the creator-supplied pagination. These gaps indicate a significant number of lost pages in this volume. There is an index (p. 3) that details sections including puddings, cakes, sauces and soups, stews and hashes, pies, tarts, etc., pickles and preserves, wines, and miscellaneous. The title pages for several of these sections are not present. There are at least three hands present throughout this volume. Examples of recipes in this volume include Ipswich almond pudding (p. 5), Lady Sunderland’s puddings (p. 6), Hartshorn jelly (p. 14), macaroons (p. 16), for the downfall (p. 22), forcemeat balls (p. 29), calf’s head hash (p. 33), veal olives (p. 37), to dye “lilack”, dark green, and yellow (p. 41), a receipt for the ague (p. 42), beef stake pie (p. 45), transparent tarts (p. 47), for the downfall in cows (p. 54), piccalilli (p. 56), for the hooping cough (whooping cough) (p. 64), mustard whey – a recipe for rheumatism (p. 66), for a horse that has a bad cough (p. 73), an excellent medicine to fasten teeth to scorbutic gums (p. 76), and recipe for blind sheep (p. 89).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Mary Duckering Robinson Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2202). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1446997559