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Title

Recipe book

Authors

• Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651

Call number

Ms. Codex 1601
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5017377
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5017377

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

ca. 1600-1825

Place

England

Summary

Recipes copied in the first half of the 17th century, with a table of contents keyed to the numbers of the recipes, which are numbered 1-79. The table of contents is divided into sections titled For Boil'd meats, For stewed Meats, To make Pasts (pastries), Roast Meats, Fryed Meats, Sauced Meats, To Make Tarts, and Milk Meats (including puddings). The recipes in this early group are closely related to the recipes of Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent, published in 1653 and 1687, but use earlier orthography than the published versions. To this early section of the manuscript (f. 3-48, rectos only), a few recipes for perfumes and cures (including for consumption, sore eyes, and heartburn) have been added by later hands on blank versos or in lower margins. Later hands (17th- to early 19th-century) continued to add recipes, primarily medicinal (f. 49-63), including cures for scurvy (attributed to Doctor Short), jaundice and toothache. The occasional culinary recipes include instructions for preserving lemons, making elder vinegar and cherry brandy, and pickling cucumbers. Later hands also entered recipes from the end with the volume turned upside down (f. 64-86). The first page at the end (f. 86v) is a table of contents that does not correspond to the recipes in the manuscript. It is followed by medicinal recipes (including for worms, bleeding, eye complaints, burns, coughs, another cure for scurvy attributed to Dr. Short, and purgatives) and a few culinary recipes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Crowned and footed orb containing the letters EM.

Extent

86 leaves : 191 x 140 mm. bound to 193 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 86; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, with two sets of ties.

Script

Written in a secretary hand (f. 1-48) and later cursive hands (f. 49-86).

Provenance

• Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2011.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

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