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

Title

Authors

• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund

Other related names

• Groves Brooks, John, 18th century, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977255975603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237964682
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Publisher

Origin

Date

before 1755

Place

Buckden

Summary

Collection of culinary recipes, for meat (mutton chops, beef stew, potted beef, cutlets, lamb fricasee), fowl (pickled pigeon, chicken pie), seafood (pickled herring, oysters, smelts in jelly), breads (biscuits, wiggs), drinks (elder wine, gooseberry wine, mead, cowslip wine, shrub), condiments (ketchup, vinegar), and sweets (plum cakes, gingerbread), The recipes are numbered 1-73, with number 26 skipped and recipes 41-44 missing (on p. 25-26, a missing leaf). Three leaves cut out (after page 40) without affecting the numbering of recipes. Most leaves dampstained to varying degrees from the upper outer corner. A few recipes at the end of the volume (after p. 39) are attributed to individuals (Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Piggott, Mrs. Fuller).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from upper cover.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Groves Brookes, Buckden, 1755 (inscription in ink, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Dean Byass Manuscripts and Rare Books (now Dean Cooke Rare Books, Bristol, England), 2018.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• England

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Receipts