English Manuscript Cookbook
1825.
Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Item #CAT000990
Quarter leather over marbled boards. Wear to covers, spine leather coming loose - generally sound. A repurposed school notebook with the earliest date as 1825, but most of the recipes from a bit later. "Aunt Christiane Kingdon's book inside cover" with a note on potato varieties from "Mr. Parr". Eight or so pages of old notes then into recipes, often attributed. for 13 pages, then then the book switches around from the other direction (though the same hand). From the other direction, a few pages of old notes with recipes mixed in, and a later prescription for pills (aloe, myrrha, magnes sulph etc, en aqua ter die and signed C.H.) then 80 pages of recipes mixing household, medical, and food but more food and drink. One page with a large ink stain, but generally clean and legible overall.
An interesting cookbook, usually a few recipes per page: tomatoes to bake, orange marmalade, mint julep, ginger beer, milk punch, beer, green gooseberry wine, gooseberry vinegar, to clean chains, flummery, calf's foot jelly, blancmange, cream ala mode, coffee, plum pudding, gingerbread, mulligatawny soup. Many with attributions, and some repeates from different people (multiple ginger beer, orange marmalade). Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000990.
Price: $350.00