English Manuscript Cookbook ca. 1850s
1859.
Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Item #CAT000992
Full burgundy leather. marbled endpapers, marked Receipts on one board and Addresses in the other direction on the rear. Light wear, carefully maintained.
A carefully written and indexed upper middle class cookery. 219 numbered pages but with quite a few blanks where sections didn't fill up. 12 index pages, 1 section page, pages 1-13 puddings; 29-50 cakes & confectionery; 69-86 pickling; 97-105 wine; 119-121 medical; 137-159 sundries; 171-176 drinks & syrups; 183-185 steak, oyster sauce, mackerel sauce; 195-197 to stew peas and lettuce and a long description on how to cook endive the FRench way; 211 oyster pie; one recipe laid in written on the verso of a Wilts and Berks Canal Navaigation scrap paper. The address section is 9 pages of contact information for lace cleaners, milliners, candle makers, button makers, harp strings, carpet importers, orange merchants, watchmakers, drapers, cabinet makers, etc. A fascinating look at the necessities of running a mid 19th century middle class household. Undated, the only date of 1850s from the scrap paper.
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Price: $650.00