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Title

Eliz Kendrick recipe book

Authors

• Kendrick, Eliz

Call number

Ms. Codex 830
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3176575
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3176575

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

1723-18--

Place

England

Summary

Comprises numerous recipes for wines -- damson, birch, balm, raisin, gooseberry, elder, cowerslap [cowslip], lemon, currant, and mead, among others. Includes recipes for tansies, puddings, cheesecakes, cakes, soups, fish, oysters, preserving meats, pickles, and preserves, with a few household recipes and medicinal recipes for green ointment and a cure for jaundice.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ownership inscription and date 1723 (p. i); a large number of early recipes are in the hand of Kendrick. A number of recipes are added in several later hands, some 19th century, undated.
   
• List of contents [compiled by bookseller?] is shelved with the manuscript.
   

Extent

182 leaves : 203 x 157 mm. bound to 206 x 165 mm

Foliation

182 leaves; [iv], 1-360 modern pagination in pencil, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Henry Sotheran Limited (London), 2001.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English--19th century
• Wine and wine making--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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