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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