English Recipe Book, 19th century

Date:
c. 1820-1876
Reference:
MS.7733
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English Recipe Book, 19th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery, household and medical receipts in various hands. The cookery recipes occupy the front of the volume for the most part (ff. 2r.-60r.), the medical are entered from the back (ff. 89v.-60v.). There are contents lists of each section inside the front and rear covers respectively.

Publication/Creation

c. 1820-1876

Physical description

90 ff. original numbering 1-71 from front, 1-27 from rear. 1 Vol., 238 x 190 mm., Half green-leather binding, with marbled boards.

Acquisition note

Purchased from A R Heath, 1999.

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/222.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Ownership note

There is reason to suspect a West Country provenance, as a number of the recipes are ascribed to such addresses. Latterly, the volume seems to have belonged to a Mrs Hill, of Henbury [Gloucs.].

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  • acc. 351107