Cuaderno en que se contienen varios guisos de cocina para el uso de la casa de la S[eño]ra Doña Juana de las Cagigas

Date:

1820

Description:

Collection of recipes, including recipes for chicken, fish, and kid (goat) dishes; stews (estofados and guisos) and soups, including "French soup"; salads and other preparations of vegetables such as artichokes, squash, beets, sweet potatoes, and cauliflower; tortillas and arepas; empanadas, quesadillas, and tamales; fritters, cakes (biscochos and pasteles) and other sweets. Ingredients include chiles, adobo, oregano, almonds, avocados, rice, dates, lemons, coconut, and chocolate. The second half of the book, which follows a second 1820 title page (p. 121), is on different, slightly larger paper, and may be later than the first half.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Written for use in the house of Juana de las Cagigas.; Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2009.; Cagigas, Juana de las, former owner.

Subject:

Cooking, Mexican

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; Codices; Cookbooks; Recipes; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

109 leaves : paper; 200-206 x 130-134 mm bound to 214 x 152 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. [i]).; Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 108 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-95, [96-216]; contemporary and slightly later pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (some irregular early pagination between p. 98-123).; Script: Written in four or more cursive hands.; Decoration: Decorative lettering and simple ink frame and ornaments on title pages (p. [i], 121).; Binding: 20th-century cloth (Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts), with Recetas de cocina 1820 on spine.; Origin: Written in Mexico in 1820 (p. [i], 121).; A leaf containing copies of some 1920s correspondence laid in this cookbook has been filed under Jasfan in Miscellaneous Manuscripts.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1498