Recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

1 volume (314 pages) : 18 x 12 cm

Production:

England, circa 1880s.

Summary:

This volume contains 100 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes created or compiled in the 1880s in England. The majority of the recipes are household and medicinal and there are numerous recipes related to hair care, hair styling, and hair loss. The volume is bound in original black calico covered boards with marbled edges. The majority of the volume consists of blank pages (p. 1-13, 35-37, and 72-314). There are also numerous clippings with recipes (p. 29, 34, 50, 55-62). Examples of recipes include Rowland’s Macassar Oil (p. 15), Locock’s stimulant hair lotion (p. 19), plum cake (20), inks (p. 21), to promote the growth of hair (p. 23), Erasmus Wilson’s [ointment, presumably for a dermatological condition] (p. 23), hair dye (p. 26), bear’s grease (p. 27), coltsfoot wine (p. 32), cure or preventing scarlet fever (p. 39), colored inks for stamping (p. 47), Worcester sauce (p. 48), spermacetic ointment (p. 64), chutney (p. 67), shampoo (p. 69), and apple float (p. 70).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2151). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1411546059