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

Title

Receipt book.

Authors

• Holme, Richard, 18th cent
• Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection

Call number

Ms. Codex 2096
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979009221303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1363234888

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

circa 1739

Place

England

Summary

A collection of over 100 recipes, arranged in loose order of fruit recipes (including preserving, fruit pastes, dried fruit, and candying); pickling recipes for vegetables, beans, shellfish, and fish; potted and collared meats; cakes, puddings, balls (dumplings), and cheesecakes; meat jellies; puff and shortcrust pastry; meat recipes (including brisk of mutton, bumbard of veal, leg of mutton a la mode); fish recipes (including roast pike and boiled cod's head); salted meats; boiled savory puddings; sweet puddings; wines, condiments, and sauces (Alastor). The second quire (f. 25-32) and back wrapper are both detached. A list of recipes at the end (f. 32r-32v) is a table of contents, sometimes diverging from the order in the manuscript, for the first half of the volume (f. 1r-15v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from front wrapper.
   

Extent

32 leaves : 200 x 160 mm bound to 200 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 32 leaves; [1-32], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; a leaf has been torn out after f. 15, with no apparent loss of text, and the foliation does not include the missing leaf.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original (18th-century) paper wrappers, with back wrapper detached and lacking upper quarter and front wrapper printed with an engraved portrait medallion of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640-1705), with a decorative border and touches of hand coloring (Alastor).

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Early reader inscriptions include the names of Robert Thornten (front wrapper), Ann Taylor (f. 32v, dated December 25th 1778), and Ann Williamson (f. 32v, dated 1785, and back wrapper)
   
• Sold by Alastor Rare Books Ltd. (East Cowes, England), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--18th century

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Receipt book]
• fol. 32r — [Table of contents]

Decorations

• Front cover — Engraving, Leopold I