Details

Subjects:

Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Cooking, English -- 19th century.
Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800.
Wine and wine making.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

English.

Summary:

Comprises numerous recipes for wines -- damson, birch, balm, raisin, gooseberry, elder, cowerslap [cowslip], lemon, currant, and mead, among others. Includes recipes for tansies, puddings, cheesecakes, cakes, soups, fish, oysters, preserving meats, pickles, and preserves, with a few household recipes and medicinal recipes for green ointment and a cure for jaundice.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ownership inscription and date 1723 (p. i); a large number of early recipes are in the hand of Kendrick. A number of recipes are added in several later hands, some 19th century, undated.
Pagination: 182 leaves; [iv], 1-360 modern pagination in pencil, upper center.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in England, from 1723 (p. i) to the 19th century[?].
List of contents [compiled by bookseller?] in curatorial files.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Henry Sotheran Limited (London), 2001.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 830

OCLC:

188901887