British household recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by/Gift of The Second Shelf (London, England), 2022.

Physical Description:

1 volume (242 pages) : 24 x 20 cm + 6 leaves

Production:

England, circa 1840s.

Summary:

This volume contains 164 culinary and 21 household and medicinal recipes likely compiled in England in the 1840s. The volume is bound in half burgundy leather (rebacked) over marbled paper boards. The volume is tabulated alphabetically and the recipes are organized accordingly. At the end of each letter's section, there are several blank pages (p. 2-6, 13-22, 31-42, 45-49, 51-58, 60-64, 67-72, 74-80, 85-92, 100-102, 107-114, 116-121, 141-144, 146-152, 157-160, 162-168, 170-176, 180-190, 193-194, 202-235). There are also several inserted leaves with recipes (p. 65, 81, 93, 103, and 123). Several of the recipes are attributed to various individuals, including Miss Blackstock (p. 7), Miss Yates (p. 8), Miss Carrie (p. 9), Miss Theahstone (p. 44), Miss Borndaile (p. 50), Mrs. Horsfell (p. 66), Mrs. Byron (p. 83), Mrs. Gladwin (p. 83), Miss Carson (p. 99), Miss Seaforth (p. 104), Mrs. J. Forster (p. 153), and Mrs. Hind Leeds (p. 179). Many of these names are attached to multiple recipes. Examples of culinary recipes include beef tea (p. 11), calves head hash (p. 23), buttered eggs (p. 50), honey comb gingerbread (p. 65), real Scotch marmalade (p. 99), mince pies (p. 124), Canterbury pudding (p. 126), Lady Graham's pudding (p. 135), Mulligatawny soup (p. 154), and to make yeast (p. 191).Examples of household and medicinal recipes include for a cold (p. 196), to take rust off steel (p. 197), and to destroy cockroaches (p. 198).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

British Household Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2149). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1409741767