Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Cuaderno en que se contienen varios guisos de cocina para el uso de la casa de la Señora Doña Juana de las Cagigas.

Other related names

• Cagigas, Juana de las, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1498
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944866563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319638579
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34j0bb49

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

1820

Place

Mexico

Summary

Collection of recipes, including recipes for chicken, fish, and kid (goat) dishes; stews (estofados and guisos) and soups, including "French soup"; salads and other preparations of vegetables such as artichokes, squash, beets, sweet potatoes, and cauliflower; tortillas and arepas; empanadas, quesadillas, and tamales; fritters, cakes (biscochos and pasteles) and other sweets. Ingredients include chiles, adobo, oregano, almonds, avocados, rice, dates, lemons, coconut, and chocolate. The second half of the book, which follows a second 1820 title page (p. 121), is on different, slightly larger paper, and may be later than the first half.

Notes

• Title from title page (p. [i]).
   
• A leaf containing copies of some 1920s correspondence laid in this cookbook has been filed under Jasfan in Miscellaneous Manuscripts.
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

109 leaves : 200-206 x 130-134 mm bound to 214 x 152 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 108 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-95, [96-216]; contemporary and slightly later pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (some irregular early pagination between p. 98-123).

Support

Paper

Binding

20th-century cloth (Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts), with Recetas de cocina 1820 on spine.

Script

Written in four or more cursive hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2009.
   
• Written for use in the house of Juana de las Cagigas.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, Mexican
• Cooking, Mexican

Genres

• Manuscripts, Mexican
• Recipes
• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Manuscripts, Spanish

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