Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Summary:

Collection of recipes for condiments, preserves, beverages, meats, soups, desserts, including several recipes for Indian pickles and curries. Most recipes are attributed and the names Mrs. Reynardsons, Mrs. Whitehill, Lady Gould, Mrs. Moseley, Mrs. Witham, Miss Trevilian, Lady Blackwood, Mrs. Fordham, Mrs. Yate, Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Weare, Mrs. Bell, and Mrs. Pedder appear repeatedly. One recipe is attributed to Fisher's Cookery Book (p. 107), perhaps Mrs. Fisher's The prudent housewife, first published in 1750, and another is attributed to Smith's Cookery Book (p. 143), perhaps E. Smith's The compleat housewife, first published in 1727. Among the recipes are household preparations for tasks such as blacking shoes, killing bugs, and polishing mahogany, as well as medical preparations. Starting from the end of the volume but in the same hand and with some of the same sources, 29 pages are dedicated to medical and household preparations.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; date based on the description of a recipe as "Much in fashion 1773" (p. 18).
Pagination: Paper, 95; ii, 1-137,[138-188]; contemporary or near contemporary pagination, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one or two hands.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Compiled in Hertfordshire, England, in the last quarter of the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 2005.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1037

OCLC:

155930222