Recipe and mathematics exercise book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Mathematics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books, Ltd. (East Cowes, England), 2021.

Physical Description:

1 volume (36 pages) ; 21 x 16 cm

Production:

England, 1787-1804.

Summary:

This volume contains 18 culinary and medicinal recipes and several pages of mathematics exercises written and compiled by an unidentified creator between 1787 and 1804, likely in England. The volume is bound in contemporary vellum covers. It commences with recipes (p. 1-8), then there is a series of blank pages (p. 9-20) before it finishes with mathematics exercises (p. 24-36). Numerous pages in this volume were cut out but appear to have contained accounts from 1787-1788. The back pastedown also bears mostly illegible accounts from 1787. The recipes include those for orange wine (p. 1), ginger wine (p. 2), Daffy’s Elixir (p. 3), to give English spirits the flavor of French brandy (p. 4), table beer (p. 4), porter (p. 4), corns (p. 5), rheumatism (p. 5), ague (p. 5), gout (p. 5), bottled gooseberry (p. 6), an American recipe for rheumatism (p. 6), to prevent the generation of stone and gravel (p. 6), cure for asthma or bilious habits (p. 7), asthmatick disorder (p. 7), gooseberry wine (p. 7), Rheumatic pains (p. 7), and walnut catchup (p. 8).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Recipe and Mathematics Exercise Book (Ms. Codex 2207). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1451845885