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Title

Recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 1037
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3945748
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3945748

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

after 1773

Place

Hertfordshire, England

Summary

Collection of recipes for condiments, preserves, beverages, meats, soups, desserts, including several recipes for Indian pickles and curries. Most recipes are attributed and the names Mrs. Reynardsons, Mrs. Whitehill, Lady Gould, Mrs. Moseley, Mrs. Witham, Miss Trevilian, Lady Blackwood, Mrs. Fordham, Mrs. Yate, Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Weare, Mrs. Bell, and Mrs. Pedder appear repeatedly. One recipe is attributed to Fisher's Cookery Book (p. 107), perhaps Mrs. Fisher's The prudent housewife, first published in 1750, and another is attributed to Smith's Cookery Book (p. 143), perhaps E. Smith's The compleat housewife, first published in 1727. Among the recipes are household preparations for tasks such as blacking shoes, killing bugs, and polishing mahogany, as well as medical preparations. Starting from the end of the volume but in the same hand and with some of the same sources, 29 pages are dedicated to medical and household preparations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; date based on the description of a recipe as "Much in fashion 1773" (p. 18).
   

Extent

95 leaves : 236 x 180 mm. bound to 243 x 194 mm

Foliation

Paper, 95; ii, 1-137,[138-188]; contemporary or near contemporary pagination, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one or two hands.

Provenance

• Purchased, 2005.
   

Subjects topical

• Cookery, English--Early works to 1800
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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