Receipt book.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Holme, Richard, 18th cent.

Contributor:

Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--18th century.

Cooking, English.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Early reader inscriptions include the names of Robert Thornten (front wrapper), Ann Taylor (f. 32v, dated December 25th 1778), and Ann Williamson (f. 32v, dated 1785, and back wrapper)

Sold by Alastor Rare Books Ltd. (East Cowes, England), 2022.

Physical Description:

32 leaves : paper ; 200 x 160 mm bound to 200 x 160 mm.

Place of Publication:

[England], [circa 1739]

Summary:

A collection of over 100 recipes, arranged in loose order of fruit recipes (including preserving, fruit pastes, dried fruit, and candying); pickling recipes for vegetables, beans, shellfish, and fish; potted and collared meats; cakes, puddings, balls (dumplings), and cheesecakes; meat jellies; puff and shortcrust pastry; meat recipes (including brisk of mutton, bumbard of veal, leg of mutton a la mode); fish recipes (including roast pike and boiled cod's head); salted meats; boiled savory puddings; sweet puddings; wines, condiments, and sauces (Alastor). The second quire (f. 25-32) and back wrapper are both detached. A list of recipes at the end (f. 32r-32v) is a table of contents, sometimes diverging from the order in the manuscript, for the first half of the volume (f. 1r-15v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from front wrapper.

Foliation: Paper, 32 leaves; [1-32], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; a leaf has been torn out after f. 15, with no apparent loss of text, and the foliation does not include the missing leaf.

Script: Written in cursive script.

Binding: Original (18th-century) paper wrappers, with back wrapper detached and lacking upper quarter and front wrapper printed with an engraved portrait medallion of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640-1705), with a decorative border and touches of hand coloring (Alastor).

Origin: Probably written in England (pen trials on back wrapper include the words London and Yarmouth), circa 1739 (Richard Holme inscription inside front wrapper).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Richard Holme, Receipt Book (Ms. Codex 2096). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1363234888

Access Restriction:

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