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Receipts in cookery and preserving only : manuscript
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Title
Receipts in cookery and preserving only : manuscript.
Created
England, 1693.
Physical Description
1 volume (25 pages, with blanks) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Notes
Title from inside front cover. Back cover contains title inscription for the medicinal recipes written from the end of the volume: "Receipts in Physick and Chirugery."
Binding: Original cardboard wrapper, stitched. Front cover is decorated with calligraphic birds, arranged around an oval containing the inscription "Deborah Taylor. 1693."
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Byass Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2016.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing cookery recipes, mostly for sweets and sweet preserves. Included are recipes for orange pudding; gingerbread; apple tarts; "Genoa paste or cream;" cherry jam; several marmalades; and pickled walnuts. A much shorter selection of medicinal recipes is written at the end of the notebook in the same hand, and includes recipes for "surfeit water;" "black salve;" a cure for jaundice; and a drink to "cure the biting of a madd dogg."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2017
References
Deborah Taylor, Receipts in Cookery and Preserving Only. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Deborah Taylor, Receipts in Cookery and Preserving Only. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Recipes - Great Britain - 17th century.
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