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Title

Recipe book.

Authors

• Frankland, Lady
• Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845

Call number

Ms. Codex 644
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924873363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/209811301
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pz51m83

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1750-1825

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book comprised of recipes for cooking, including many for curries; housekeeping formulas; wines; and medicines, including remedies for ague, deafness, gout, sore throat, rheumatism, and typhus. Most recipes are attributed to named individuals including Lady Fagg, Lady Monson, Lady Roche, Miss Colville, Miss Bedingfeld, Miss Bowles, Richard Jebb, Mrs. Cowslade, Baroness Philetsen, Dr. Addington, Dr. Bateman, Dr. Reynolds, and Dr. Darwell. Near the end is copied "A famous receipt for salad," in verse by Rev. Sydney Smith. Notes inside front and back covers by "R. W." are source of attribution: "Dear Grandmama's book Several persons have written in it as well as myself" and "Grandmama Lady Frankland's Receipt Book." A number of additional leaves have been sewn into the volume, these have recipes in "R. W."'s hand and in several other hands.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied cataloger.
   

Extent

60 leaves : 181 x 111-192 x 154 mm bound to 199 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, 60; [1-60]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Two notes folded and sewn in between f. 36-37. Irregular contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners of some folios. Several leaves missing at the beginning and end. Three additional leaves sewn in at end.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, separated from spine. Paper crumbling at edges, fragile.

Script

Written in a cursive script by three or more hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books, 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English
• Cooking, English
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Wine and wine making
• Wine and wine making

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• cookbooks
• recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 18th century
• 19th century
• English
• England

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