Details

Subjects:

Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Beer.
Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800.
Wine and wine making.
Cooking -- England -- Sussex -- 18th century.
Cooking -- England -- Sussex -- 19th century.
Cooking.
England -- Sussex.

Form/Genre:

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

Summary:

Culinary recipes for preserving meats, fish, and fruits; for fowl, hare, venison, mutton, beef, pork, shrimp, lobster, salmon; for pancakes, cakes, puddings, creams, and jellies; rice dishes, curries, curry powders, Jamaica pepperpot soup, Irish stew, and salads; for coffee, yeast, leavening, and French bread; for fruit wines, mead, beer, and sherry, including spruce beer and balm wine. A few recipes are attributed to Soyer and Batchellor, most are undated and without attribution. Two of the items laid in are from Uckfield, Sussex and Lewes, East Sussex.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 83; 1-160, [161-166]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by at least four different hands, with a few items in pencil, copied over in ink.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, rebacked.
Origin: Written in England, 1756 (note, inside upper cover, p. 166) to 1844 (p. 102). Some recipes may be earlier or later than these dates.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by John Price Antiquarian Books (London), 2002.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 895.

OCLC:

225155502

Access Restriction:

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