Call Number:

Ms. Codex 1989

Repository:

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

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Recipe book, 1852-1877, Ms. Codex 1989, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1852-1877 (inclusive)

Form:

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

Abstract:

Volume comprised of culinary recipes and medicinal remedies written by an unnamed author in England spanning the years from 1852 to 1877.

A black, leather bound volume comprised of culinary recipes and medicinal remedies written by and unnamed author in England spanning the years from 1852 to 1877. Recipes include beverages, cakes, cheeses, creams, fruits, jams, marmalades, meat dishes, puddings, sauces, souffles, and soups. Highlights include spruce beer and Francatelli's moselle; cheese souffle; butter and fish sauces; apricot, castle, celestine, and Marlborough puddings; current, ginger, Madeira, seed, and Sultan cakes; Indian curry; ornamental sugar; and ice cream. Medicinal remedies include formulas to treat bed sores, bright's disease, coughs, diphtheria, jaundice, rheumatism, and swallowing a wasp. There are several household recipes including floor varnish, cleaning grates, and polishing oils. Instructions for knitting baby booties, a cap, a horse shoe heel, and a round heel are included. Some instructions for gardening and care of certain plants are in the volume. Clippings from newspapers of recipes and household instructions are pasted in the volume. A receipt for a folding spring bedstead from Stewart & Co. in London signed E. P. Henderson--possibly the compiler--is pasted in the volume.