Manuscript cookery book (5 Ergebnisse)

indexed manuscript recipe book in a neat hand, paper watermarked 1824; well-used, with cookery stains and handling marks, a couple of pages with early repairs, wholly legible pp. [67], small 4to, half maroon morocco and brown paper backed boards; scuffed, old repairs to boards, nicely rebacked with new endpapers, good. A nice example of an early nineteenth-century culinary, household and medicinal recipe book. Packed with recipes, many of which named for their originator: Sir John Broughton's Ginger Beer; Mrs Smyth's recipe for potted herrings, as well as some unusual fare: 'a wholesome beverage for the summer months', 'to preserve lettuce stalks as ginger', Adelaide Toast (fat saturated and topped with ham), and the extraordinarily meat-rich 'Yorkshire Pie': 'take a goose, a hare, a rabbit, a tongue, a pheasant, a brace of partridges and a chicken. wrap them all up in the goose, veal, shin of beef, calves feet and fat bacon.'.…

densely written manuscript recipe book, various printed excerpts pasted in, pp. [172] modern half black cloth over marbled boards, very good. Very clean and legible nineteenth-century manuscript book containing at least a couple of hundred recipes, with an emphasis on inexpensive and filling fare: hashes and minces made with leftovers: cold potato croquettes; curried beef (cold meat cookery); Irish soup; stewed Spanish onions; mutton; whiting fried; minced ham with poached egg; omelettes. While domestic economy reigns, it stretches to include desserts such as apple foam, cream pie, soufflé, marmalade cake and coconut biscuits, as well as 'an excellent way to make coffee'. …

neat manuscript cookery book in just a couple of hands, hand-numbered, prefatory index, paper watermarked 1809, c. 20 loosely inserted recipes and notes and various cuttings to the pastedowns; a little stained and spotted but wholly legible, pp. 130 (c. 2/3 of the book in use), small 4to, half polished blind tooled goatskin and paper backed boards; rather rubbed, spine end chipped; ownership inscription of Mrs Simpson, Hilton Lodge (Derbyshire), good. Mrs Simpson's recipes include wines and jellies, flummeries, oyster omelette, Oxford dumplings, Adelaide sandwiches, Dutch sauce, German puddings, 'pink colouring for sweets', Alderman's feast, giblet soup, how to stew a cod's head, whiggs, punch and cyder cup. Medicinal and household recipes to rear. Many are named for their originator or donator. Inserted sheets include correspondence on headed paper, and a recipe for pot pourri.…

neat manuscript containing approximately 280 pages of cookery and medicinal recipes, with manuscript tabulated index, c. 40 loosely inserted (many later, some printed) pp. [26], 250, 188, [26], large 4to, contemporary navy leather, ornately gilt and blind, flat spine ruled gilt, 'Cookery' in gilt to upper board and 'Medical' to lower; extremities slightly rubbed, A fine example, handsomely bound, of an early nineteenth-century home culinary and medical recipe book. Likely the work of Harriet Amelia Simpson (1816-77, née Silvester) of Liverpool, who in an immaculate hand transcribes numerous recipes (indexed according to type) for meat, game, fish (sturgeon, eels (to kill instantly!), carp, salmon, brill, herrings), vegetable dishes, soups, sauces, gravies, preserves, pickles etc. These include 'stubble goose', 'porker's head', 'turtle', 'Norfolk dumplings', 'ox palates', 'jugged hare' and 'seed water'. The reverse of the book includes medical remedies including canker, consumption, heartburn, fits, cancer, toothache, impurities in the blood, worms in children, and warts, as well as items for the home such as blacking, ink, and paints.…

Manuscript notebook, neatly legible text (just over half the leaves in use); some toning and soiling, but internally clean, pp. [80] (170 x 200 mm), brown paper backed boards, marbled edges and endpapers, title by hand to upper cover; a little shaken and browned, with the upper joint starting; ownership inscriptions and the odd biographical detail within the text (see below), good. A neatly written and fully indexed mid-nineteenth-century recipe book. Mrs. Heek's go-to recipes include soup maigre, bath buns, Irish sauce, 'souflee' potatoes, Seville orange tart, puddings (Irish, Genoese, Alderman - a variation of Bakewell tart using apricots), 'German Pie' (beef and pork sausages, liver, large oysters with their juice, and cayenne pepper), home remedies, and a method for preserving eggs. Loose sheets feature recipes for parsnip wine (with a horseradish variant for those who favour something spicier), various icings, and raspberry vinegar. The very different addresses in the front of the book - 30 Pudding Lane and 22 Upper Brook Street - presumably represent Heek's places of lodging and work respectively. She was the cook for William Battie Wrightson M.P., (1789-1879) of Cusworth Hall in Doncaster, who had 22 Upper Brook Street as his London residence from 1841 until his death. A later addition in a different hand (a recipe for knitted woollen slippers), suggests a later owner in the West Midlands. (Plus further ms documents and modern booklet relating to the Battie-Wrightsons.). …