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

Title

Recipe book

Authors

• Plowden, Ann M

Call number

Ms. Codex 895
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3430904
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3430904

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1756-1844

Place

England

Summary

Culinary recipes for preserving meats, fish, and fruits; for fowl, hare, venison, mutton, beef, pork, shrimp, lobster, salmon; for pancakes, cakes, puddings, creams, and jellies; rice dishes, curries, curry powders, Jamaica pepperpot soup, Irish stew, and salads; for coffee, yeast, leavening, and French bread; for fruit wines, mead, beer, and sherry, including spruce beer and balm wine. A few recipes are attributed to Soyer and Batchellor, most are undated and without attribution. Two of the items laid in are from Uckfield, Sussex and Lewes, East Sussex.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

PRO PATRIA.

Extent

83 leaves : 200 x 160 mm. bound to 209 x 166 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 83; 1-160, [161-166]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, rebacked.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by at least four different hands, with a few items in pencil, copied over in ink.

Provenance

• Sold by John Price Antiquarian Books (London), 2002.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Beer
• Wine and wine making--Early works to 1800
• Cooking--England--Sussex--18th century
• Cooking--England--Sussex--19th century

Genres

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

Licenses

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