[Recipe book]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1780

Description:

Culinary recipes for catchup, vinegar, breakfast cakes, french bread, hams, black pudding, dried apples, sea biscuits, sauces, soups, cheeses, preserves, etc. plus medicinal and household recipes.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Sold by Henry Sotheran Limited, London, 2001.

Subject:

Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800; Cooking, English; Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

54 leaves : paper; 174 x 99 (151 x 92) mm bound to 166 x 100 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Pagination: Paper, 54; [1-54]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Recipes on f. 52-54 written upside down and in reverse; f. 33-51 blank.; Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.; Binding: Contemporary quarter parchment and marbled boards.; Origin: Written in England in 1780 (note, inside upper cover).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 876