Louisa Clare Turner cookbook : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Turner, Louisa Clare, 1821-1893, compiler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books (East Cowes, England), 2026.

Physical Description:

1 volume (72 pages) ; 20 x 17 cm

Production:

England, 1843, 1882.

Summary:

This cookbook contains around 95 culinary recipes written and compiled by Louisa Clare Turner (1821-1893) in 1843 in England with an 1882 addition by an unidentified second hand. The volume is bound in quarter leather over paper-covered boards. There is significant damage to the binding. There is a clipping with several recipes for the preparation of eggs pasted onto the front pastedown. Examples of the recipes in this volume include tin lobster from The Queen 4 February 1882 (p. 4), Cumberland puddings (p. 11), sausages without skins (p. 15), ginger biscuits from East Thorpe (p. 20), splendid recipe for milk punch (p. 22), to boil rice for a curry Chinese recipe (p. 25), to cure tongues (p. 30), cabinet pudding (p. 41), sweet omelette (p. 50), Dutch pudding called King William’s Pudding (p. 57), Mulligatawny soup (p. 60), Charlotte Russe pudding (p. 65), and Siberia crabs (p. 70).

Cited as:

Louisa Clare Turner Cookbook (Ms. Codex 2370). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1597424397

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