[Recipe book]

Name:

Plowden, Ann M.

Timespan:

19th century; 18th century; Early works to 1800

Date:

1756

Description:

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.

Language:

English

Provenance:

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

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); recipes; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

83 leaves : paper; 200 x 160 mm bound to 209 x 166 mm + 9 notes

Geographic Subject:

England -- Sussex

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Pagination: Paper, 83; 1-160, [161-166]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in various cursive scripts by at least four different hands, with a few items in pencil, copied over in ink.; Watermark: PRO PATRIA.; Binding: Contemporary parchment, rebacked.; Origin: Written in England, 1756 (note, inside upper cover, p. 166) to 1844 (p. 102). Some recipes may be earlier or later than these dates.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 895