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

Title

Receipts of pastry and cookery

Authors

• Kidder, E. 1665 or 6-1739

Call number

Ms. Codex 625
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2363300
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2363300

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

17--

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book with a printed title page and manuscript collection of recipes. There is a table of contents for the various sections (p. 70) which include recipes for pies, pastries, cakes, broths, dressing fish, collaring, potting, pickling, and making jellies.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from printed title page, possibly from London, that reads in full: Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars by Ed. Kidder; who teacheth at his school on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, in the afternoon, in St. Martin's Le Grand; and on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, in the afternoon, at his school next to Furnival's Inn in Holborn; and ladies may be taught at their own houses.
   

Extent

37 leaves : 182 x 117 (165 x 113) mm. bound to 187 x 123 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 37 + i; [iii], 1-66, [67-71]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century[?] stamped leather, with gilt stamped title on spine: Kidder Receipts.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one recipe in a second hand (p. 71).

Provenance

• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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Table of contents

• 70 — Table of contents, p. 70