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Title

Recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 205
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2362772
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2362772

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1777

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book containing mostly recipes for wine, cooking, and preserving, plus a few medical and veterinary prescriptions; and a few recipes for cleaning plate, fumigating rooms, etc. In addition to English recipes are some that show continental influence, for example, those for French bread, French fritters, Paris curd, Dutch biscuits, and Portugal cakes. Includes a table of contents for 163 numbered recipes (f. 1r-2v). A leaf laid in the front from A.B. and addressed to Mrs. Edward Browne appears to be dated Feb. 1, [1808?] "To make a sweet jar;" the same recipe is copied in the same hand on f. 4v.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Two leaves laid in are shelved with the manuscript.
   

Extent

74 leaves : 197 x 159 mm. bound to 205 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, 74; [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.

Provenance

• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Wine and wine making

Genres

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

Licenses

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