English Manuscript Cookbook dated 1847
1847.
Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Item #CAT000991
Quarter green morocco over marbled boards. An attractively kept recipe book, mostly one recipe per page, often attributed, likely to neighbors. With recipes laid in and laid down in spots, some clipped from newspapers. First recipe dated 1847 and the last (on a numbered page) 1871. 55 recipes of 24 years with three further pages of recipes, the last dated 1888 and one laid in dated 1889. About 30 laid in recipes and clippings.
A carefully assembled collection of worldly recipes, some attributed to "Lady Seymour" suggesting that the cookbook was put together by some branch of the noble Seymours: blancmange, flummery, wafer pudding, parmesan puffs, pollo con arroz - chicken and rice, gingerbread loaf, charlotte russe, burnt sugar pudding, egg sandwiches, curry powder, spiced beef, salad sauce. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000991.
Price: $500.00