Receipts of pastry and cookery : for the use of his scholars

Name:

Kidder, E. (Edward), 1665 or 1666-1739; Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Recipe book with a printed title page and manuscript collection of recipes. There is a table of contents for the various sections (p. 70) which include recipes for pies, pastries, cakes, broths, dressing fish, collaring, potting, pickling, and making jellies.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.; Aresty, Esther B., former owner.

Relation:

Unique at Penn blog post: https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/25/

Subject:

Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Cooking

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Cookbooks; Recipes; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

37 leaves : paper; 182 x 117 (165 x 113) mm bound to 187 x 123 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from printed title page, possibly from London, that reads in full: Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars by Ed. Kidder; who teacheth at his school on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, in the afternoon, in St. Martin's Le Grand; and on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, in the afternoon, at his school next to Furnival's Inn in Holborn; and ladies may be taught at their own houses.; Pagination: Paper, i + 37 + i; [iii], 1-66, [67-71]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one recipe in a second hand (p. 71).; Binding: 18th-century[?] stamped leather, with gilt stamped title on spine: Kidder Receipts.; Origin: Written in England in the 18th century.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 625