Receipt book [manuscript], 17 century.
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Title
Receipt book [manuscript], 17 century.
Description
1 volume.
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271242 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "An early receipt book, circa 1700, pp.79, comprising 175 numbered recipes written in a single neat and legible hand, 4pp. index at rear titled 'The Table' in the same hand, text within red ink double-rule border, final leaf with several recipes in a different hand, lightly toned and spotted (mostly to margins), two small worm holes to upper bank corner throughout (becoming a short trail at rear), sheet size 23.5 x 18 cm (9.25 x 7 ins), marbled endpapers, front endpapers with armorial bookplates of James Brodie of Brodie Esq. and Sir William Bennet of Grubett Baronet 1707, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco, slightly rubbed and marked, foot of spine chipped, spine and covers gilt panelled, 4to, housed in a custom-made red cloth solander box. A beautifully written early cookery book, containing recipes such as: 'To rost a Neats Tongue & Udder'; 'To Pickle Ashen keys'; 'To boyle a John a doree'; 'To boyle Pullets in Bladders'; 'To rost a Westphalia Ham the newest way'; 'To make Beefe Pye in Blood'; 'To make Pitty Pattys the French way'; 'To make the Puses that I was speaking of before in my Potage'; 'To rost a Hare with a Puding in his Belly'; 'To broyle Hog's feet & Ragoo the Eares'; 'To make Andoolins'; 'To Pott a Swan'; 'To fry Harticholks the best way'; and 'To make Mango of Muskmellons'." Ordered from Christopher Edwards D9317, 2019-06-28, Dominic Winter auction: The library & the picture collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey, June 26, 2019, Lot 114 Purchase made possible by The Albert H. and Shirley Small Acquisitions Endowment Fund. Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment.