Manuscript Location

Library of Congress, Rare Book/Special Collections Reading Room (Jefferson LJ239)

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

19th century

Description

This recipe book is in several hands, one of which is presumably that of Rachell Sandford, whose name is stamped in gold in a red inset on the book's green cover. The book's original author wrote culinary recipes from the front of the volume and medical recipes from the back, but later writers did not consistently follow this plan. The library record seems to suggest that the book contains at least 120 written pages.