Details

Subjects:

Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Cookbooks.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

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.

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.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.

Cited in:

Described in Theophano, Janet. Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen, an exhibition of materials selected from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library, 1996) pp. 33-34 (No. 57).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 625

Contributor:

Aresty, Esther B., former owner.
Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

155972652

Web link:

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