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Title

Livesley family recipe book.

Authors

• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1956
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970981033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056096971

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

circa 1715

Place

Great Britain

Summary

Collection of recipes and a few remedies from the United Kingdom in the early 18th century, possibly compiled by members of the Livesley family. Through most of the book, the recipes are numbered, 1-82 (f. 1r-20r); 25 additional recipes are not numbered (f. 19v-27r). The recipes for meats (chicken, beef, haggis, ham, mutton, sausages), desserts (cakes, puddings, custards), pickles, sauces, syrups and preserves are in no apparent order. Remedies (stone, colic, stomach pain, cough, ague) are intermixed with recipes. Many recipes and remedies have attributions, including a recipe to pickle cucumbers from Mrs. Livesley (f. 14r). Two pages in the book were used for simple accounts, one for records of butter (with a mention of "my brother Livesley") and ale dated 1714 and 1715 (f. 1r), and one, upside down, for money paid for washing and lent to the washer in November and December 1714 (f. 3v). Two gatherings at the beginning (approximately 24 leaves) and the first and third leaves of the first extant gathering have been torn out, and the stubs suggest that these too were used for accounts. Approximately 7 leaves at the end have also been cut out; these were more likely blank.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

27 leaves : 200 x 162 mm bound to 205 x 170 mm

Collation

Paper, 27; 1¹²⁻² (-1, -3) 2¹² 3¹²⁻⁷ (-6, -7, -8, -9, -10, -11, -12); modern foliation in pencil, 1-27, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century parchment over cardboard.

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 27 July 2016, lot 134.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• England
• Science -- Medicine

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