Henrietta F. Butler cookbook : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Butler, Henrietta F., active 1831, compiler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books, Inc. (East Cowes, England), 2023.

Physical Description:

1 volume (74 leaves) : 23 x 18 cm

Production:

London, England, 1826-1831.

Other Title:

"Receipt Book"

Summary:

This volume contains 130 culinary and 1 household recipe created and compiled by Henrietta F. Butler between 1826 and 1831 in Kensington, London, England. There are two additional unidentified hands that appear at the end of the volume (p. 60-62, 66-68, 74). The volume is bound in quarter leather. There is an index (p. 71-73) and several pages have been cut out (p. 42-43). The majority of the recipes in this cookbook are culinary, but there is a selection of savory recipes (p. 54-59, 66, 74). Examples of recipes in this volume include Mother Eve’s pudding (p. 1), Indian corn pudding (p. 7), vermicelli pudding (p. 11), Malaga pudding (p. 12), Knight’s Templar pudding (p. 17), Bath buns (p. 21), twelfth cake (p. 24), apple jelly (p. 36), Damson cheese (p. 39), raspberry vinegar (p. 41), Somersetshire pudding (p. 44), macaroni no. 1 (p. 49), to pickle hams (p. 54), Irish stew (p. 57), Reverend Sydney Smith’s recipe for salad (p. 59), jugged hare (p. 66), “water proof dubbing for boots” (p. 69), and brine for pork (p. 74). Several individuals known to Henrietta Butler are noted in this cookbook, including Cole Butler (p. i), Mrs. C. Butler (p. 2), Mrs. Eldridge of Abingdon (p. 20), Mrs. John Butler of Warblington (p. 52), and Mrs. T. Butler of Midhurst (p. 60).

Cited as:

Henrietta F. Butler Cookbook (Ms. Codex 2159). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1419915358

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