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

Title

Recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 1038
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3947224
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3947224

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

between 1765 and 1830

Place

England

Summary

Collection of recipes for desserts, meats, preserves, "soops," and condiments, including Indian-influenced dishes such as curry and pickles. Some recipes are attributed, and Paxton, Baker, Ward, Pridham, Simeon, and Sayer are surnames that appear repeatedly. Included among the recipes are a few preparations for household tasks such as marking linen and making a red dye. Beginning upside down from the end is a collection of medical preparations. A few recipes written on scraps of paper and one printed recipe ("For Strains and Bruises") are laid in.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; dating based on watermarks and date of 1828 appearing in manuscript (p. 95).
   
• Oversize recipes removed from volume cataloged as Misc Mss 15.
   

Watermark

L. van Gerrink, 1765-1766 (Churchill, marks no. 253 and 411).

Extent

88 leaves : 228 x 185 mm. bound to 230 x 190

Foliation

Paper, 88; 1-54, [55-176]; 98-131 are blank; 134-174 are numbered 1-11, starting from the end; partial contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, modern pagination in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

First hand, 1-36 and 165-174; second hand, 37-94 and 136-165 and items laid in (date 1793 on oversize item removed from volume); third hand, 97-99 and items laid in, with date 1828. The first and second hands seem related, as attributions for recipes repeat in both hands.

Provenance

• Purchased, 2005.
   

Subjects topical

• Cookery, English--Early works to 1800
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

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