Call Number:

Ms. Codex 2202

Repository:

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

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Mary Duckering Robinson recipe book, 1796-1826, Ms. Codex 2202, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1796-1826 (inclusive)

Creator:

Robinson, Mary Duckering, active 1796-1826

Form:

Cookbooks and Codices (bound manuscripts)

Abstract:

This volume contains 133 culinary, medicinal, household, and veterinary recipes written and compiled by Mary Duckering Robinson in Tothby, Alford, England between 1796 and 1826.

Little is known about this volume's creator, Mary Duckering Robinson.

An inscription written by a former owner on the first page of this volume states that, "Mary Duckering married Dr. John Robinson at Tothby or Alford – their daughter Elizabeth married Frederick Cooke, my father, and this book came into my hands March 1904 - Frederick Duckering Cooke at Derby."

This volume contains 133 culinary, medicinal, household, and veterinary recipes written and compiled by Mary Duckering Robinson in Tothby, Alford, England between 1796 and 1826.

There is cataloger-supplied pagination in this volume due to significant gaps in the creator-supplied pagination. These gaps indicate a significant number of lost pages in this volume. There is an index (p. 3) that details sections including puddings, cakes, sauces and soups, stews and hashes, pies, tarts, etc., pickles and preserves, wines, and miscellaneous. The title pages for several of these sections are not present. There are at least three hands present throughout this volume.

Examples of recipes in this volume include Ipswich almond pudding (p. 5), Lady Sunderland's puddings (p. 6), Hartshorn jelly (p. 14), macaroons (p. 16), for the downfall (p. 22), forcemeat balls (p. 29), calf's head hash (p. 33), veal olives (p. 37), to dye "lilack", dark green, and yellow (p. 41), a receipt for the ague (p. 42), beef stake pie (p. 45), transparent tarts (p. 47), for the downfall in cows (p. 54), piccalilli (p. 56), for the hooping cough (whooping cough) (p. 64), mustard whey – a recipe for rheumatism (p. 66), for a horse that has a bad cough (p. 73), an excellent medicine to fasten teeth to scorbutic gums (p. 76), and recipe for blind sheep (p. 89).