English recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood (Exeter, UK), 18 March 2020, as part of Lot 439.

Physical Description:

1 volume (58 pages) ; 21 x 17 cm

Production:

England, circa 1800-1850.

Summary:

This volume contains 103 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes created and compiled by an unknown creator in England in the early 19th century. The volume is comprised of loose papers sewn together without covers. There are several hands present throughout the volume, including two that contributed culinary recipes and at least four that contributed household and medicinal recipes. Examples of recipes in this volume include to make beef olives (p. 1), Count Rumford’s Soup (p. 2), to pickle salmon as at Newcastle (p. 3), to make curry (p. 4), to make flummery (p. 8), lemon brandy (p. 29), mock turtle soup (p. 21), bread patties (p. 33), white soup (p. 34), hooping cough (whooping cough) (p. 49), “spermecets” (p. 49), marking ink (p. 51), Johnson’s salve (p. 53), sarsaparilla decoction (p. 53), and for a locked jaw (p. 56).

Cited as:

English Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2189). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1434259169