Recipe book : manuscript, ca. 1856
- Description
- Comprises culinary recipes for puddings, custards, pies, dessert sauces, ice cream, cakes, cookies, beef, fish, chicken, pigeons, tripe, curing hams, and several for Theo Hook's punch. Several items laid in including menus for large events, one for a "Vestry Supper;" one is a list of linens.
- Creator
- Paige, Mrs
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscripts, American
- cookbooks
- menus
- recipes
- Date
- 1856
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Cooking, American
- Extent
- 1 volume
- Notes
- Attribution from embossed name on front cover.
- Written in one or possibly two hands in Charleston, S.C.; one recipe is dated April 1856, one item laid in is dated 1844.
- Recipes on 26 leaves, remainder are blank.
- Binding: Contemporary leather.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3vm4319h
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 392
- Provenance
- Purchased from The Reynolds (Newburyport, Mass.), 2001.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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