Call Number:

Ms. Codex 1848

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Sandford, Mark, Receipt book, Ms. Codex 1848, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1831-1879 (inclusive)

Creator:

Sandford, Mark and Sandford, Mark, Jr.

Form:

Recipes, Clippings (information artifacts), Prescriptions, and Codices (bound manuscripts)

Abstract:

An oversize volume comprising a compilation of veterinary, medicinal, household, and culinary recipes spanning the years 1831 to 1879 and over two generations of the Sandford family.

Born in Folkestone, Kent, England. Mark Sandford senior became a farmer in Martins, East Langdon, Kent, and a member of the English Agricultural Society. In 1834 he married Susannah Hart (1804-1875) in Dover and they had three children: Mark Sandford, Junior, Henry, and Elizabeth Hart. Sandford, Jr. attended Cliffe House Academy and became a farmer and hop grower in Martins, East Langdon. Sandford, Jr. later became an insurance agent selling policies in fire and life. He married Harriet Denne in 1870 and the couple had two daughters, Florence Mary and Maruguerite Harriet.

This vellum-bound volume is a compilation of veterinary, medicinal, household, and culinary recipes spanning the years 1831 to 1879 over two generations of the Sandford family. "Receipt book" appears on the front cover, the spine, and title page in decorative lettering. "Mark Sandford, Jr., Martin Farm, Dover" is inscribed on the inside front cover. Following the title page is an alphabetical index to all the recipes contained in the volume. The recipes are chiefly handwritten along with some clippings pasted in throughout the volume. Veterinary diseases and remedies are prominent and comprise a significant portion of the contents. Formulas for linaments, ointments, powders and other mixtures provide remedies for diseases and injuries of cows, horses, and sheep, with a few for pigs. The recipes address a multitude of livestock ailments including eye diseases, bone maladies, epidemics, fevers, flies, foot diseases, scabs, spavin, and worms. There are few remedies for dogs including distemper and mange. Medicinal remedies for people include recipes for bee stings, dog bites, cholera, colds, coughs, hydrophobia, and rheumatism. Several recipes to destroy flies on onions and turnips, to destroy mice, rats, snails and wasps are included. There are some household recipes for blacking, hair wash, inks, polish, soap, and American whitewash. Culinary recipes for biscuits, breads, cakes, coffee, custards, preserves, soups, syrups, and wines are in the volume. One recipe for magic wine seems to be a party game. The pages in the volume are numbered 2-271. Pages 258-265, the index, are bound a the beginning of the volume. A majority of the recipes collected in the volume have attributions from encyclopedias, farriers, individuals, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The volume is in at least two hands.