Sperling family recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sperling, Sarah Ann Grace, 1770-1850, compiler.

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 Dean Cooke Rare Books (Bristol, England), 2023.

Physical Description:

1 volume (177 pages) : 12 x 19 cm

Production:

England, 1799-1816.

Biography/History:

Due to mentions of Henry Sperling (p. 54) and Dynes Hall (p. 130), this volume possibly belonged to Sarah Ann Grace Sperling (1770-1850), wife of Henry Piper Sperling (1768-1847). The Sperlings were a wealthy family who lived in Tottenham (approximately 1791-1816), Park Place, Henley-on-Thames (1816-1824), and Norbury Park Mansion, Surrey (1824-1847).

Summary:

This volume dates from 1799 to 1816 and contains 166 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes created and compiled in England, possibly by Sarah Ann Grace Sperling. There are numerous other hands present throughout the volume. This volume is bound in half leather. There is an index (p. i-vi) that lists the recipes numerically according to their page number. There are newspaper clippings with recipes attached to the front and back pastedown and select pages (p. 103, 111, 114). These clippings are from papers including the Yorkshire Gazette (front pastedown), Belfast Paper (p. 103), and Glasgow Chronicle (p. 114). Many of the recipes are attributed to individuals, including Miss Vernon (p. 17), Mrs. Colville (24), L.A. Carpenter (p. 29), Lady Charlemont (p. 30), Mrs. Breton (p. 32), John Bruce (p. 73), Mrs. Spragg (p. 77), Mrs. James Werthy (p. 99), Dr. Crassford Clifton (p. 128), Lady Wolesby (p. 131), and Lady Frances Harper (p. 148). Examples of the culinary recipes include row hamptons (p. 4), potatoe soup (p. 7), blanche mange (p. 11), Angellica green (p. 15), Shrewsbury cakes (p. 20), cream cheese (p. 29), Italian cheese (p. 32), flummery (p. 33), cheap dish for the poor (p. 45), cheese on toast (p. 55), Sally Lunn (p. 60), ice cream (p. 62), chicken and rice (p. 90), Mulligatawny soup (p. 108), and a haggis for the poor (p. 137). Examples of the household recipes include Dr. Pary's vinegar for preserving wood (p. 55), to clean oil pictures (p. 57), purple dye (p. 97), to destroy house flies (p. 103), and wash balls (p. 162). Examples of medicinal recipes include for a cough (p. 168), typhus fever (p. 113), putrid fevers (p. 120), for the bite of a viper (p.129), bile (p. 150), and epilepsy (p. 163).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Sperling Family Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2148). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1417233111