Manuscript Location

University of Iowa Main Library, Special Collections, Szathmary Culinary Archive

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

ca. 1850

Description

This cookbook contains 104 numbered pages of recipes, the first 49 pages written in a plain, clear hand, the remaining pages in a neat but rightward tilting hand that often borders on illegibility. There is a carefully laid out 11-page index in the back that includes the recipes of both writers. The book features an unusually wide range of dishes, although desserts, cakes, and preserves predominate, as is typical of manuscript cookbooks. Most of the recipes were characteristic of both English and American cooking in the mid-19th century. However, the book's recipes for Harvey's Fish Sauce, Bullace Cheese or Damson, Tench (a fish), Oxford Sausages, Irish Cream Cheese, Collar Beef, and Gooseberry Cheese strongly suggest that the manuscript is of English rather than American origin, as does the repeated use of the word "treacle" for molasses in the book's recipes for gingerbread and ham curing.

Recipes include: Ginger Pop, Siberian Crab Cheese [crabapple paste], Ginger Bread, Ginger Wine, Gooseberry Biscuits, Potatoe Spunge Cake, pickle Lemons, dry Gooseberries, Plum Cake, Apple Cheese cakes, Gooseberry Wine, Plum Pudding, Pickle Mushrooms, Common Plum Cake [2 ways], Preserve Pears, Sausages, Preserve Green Gages, Ginger Bread, Rice and Apple Pudding, Small Plum Puddings, Permenent Ink, Blacking, Gooseberry Vinegar, Elder Wine, Ginger Bread, Cure, for a Dropsy, College Pudding, Anchovy Sauce, Indian Pickle, stew an Ox's Cheeck, Green Peas Soup, Harvey's Fish Sauce, Sillabubs, Bullace Cheese or Damson, Kings Whim, fry Oysters, stew Oysters, stew Tench, Currants for Tarts, Apple Pudding, Mince Pies, Lemon Cream, drop a Loin of Mutton like Venison, To cure Tongues, Pease Soup, Mangoes, preserve Cucumbers or small Mellons (West Indies way), Currant Jelly, stew Eels, Pickle Red Cabbage, Walnut Catsup, Stew Apples, Hen's Nest, Apricot Pudding, Almond Pudding, Bath Pudding, Dutch Pudding, Potatoe Pudding, Sago Pudding, Little Puddings, Spoonful Pudding, College Pudding, Lemon Cheese Cakes, Orange Cheesecakes, Orange Cake, Almond Cheesecakes, Curd Cheesecakes, Irish Cream Cheese, Cream Cake, Dutch Sauce for Meat or Fish, Mock-Turtle, Orange Jelly, Raisin Wine, Calves Head Hash, German Puffs, Pickle Lobsters, Liquid Soap, Pot Salmon, Pot Shrimps, stew Pigeons, Blanc Mange, Jenne Mange, Preserve Apricots, Apricot Marmalade, stew a Brisket of Beef, Lemon Sohd, Pot Trout, Ratifia Pudding, Ginger Beer, Eider Flower Wine, Strawberry Wine, Cold Cream Welch Pudding, prevent Infection, Camphiore Julip, White Soup, To make any Peas break, Fritters, Cucumber Catsup, pickle Hams, Apple Jelly, To fix colors in Linen, Apple Ginger, American Crab Apples Preserves, Custard Pudding, Gingerbread, Curry, apple Pudding, Gooseberry Pudding, Macaroni, Forcemeat for Turkey, Soda Cake, Rock Cakes, Tea Cakes, Almond Cakes, Orange Jelly, Lemon Pudding, French [bread], Mince Meat, Lemon Sponge, Orange Marmalade, Orange Gems, Preserved Cucumbers, Ginger Cakes, Sweet Gingerbread Cakes, Cake, Good Pudding, Mince Meat, Rice Custard, Cabinet Pudding, Souffle, Neat Cabinet Pudding, Lemon Dumplings, Excellent pound cake, Light cake, Soda Cake, Receipt for Camphor Wine, Eggs a la Giegs, Short Crust, Cream Biscuits, Ginger Cakes, Orange jelly, Italian Cream or cheese, Almond paste, [Good] Radish Sauce, Orange Jelly, Hasty Pudding, Saline Drought, Arrow Root Blanc Mange, Soap, To destroy Bugs, To [Collar] Beef, Plaster of Paris, Biscuit Puddings, Bakewell Pudding or Matlock Cheese Cake, Tansy pudding, Beef, Calfs feet Jelly, Gooseberry Cheese, Sponge cake, Rice Blanc Mange, Oxford Sausages, Quince Marmelade, To roast apples, Milk Punch, Gingerbread, Raisin Marmelade Pudding, Salad [Justine?] without eggs, Crust for fruit puddings, Arrow Root pudding, Ground Rice pudding, plain baked plum pudding, Batter pudding, Citron puddings, Marlborough Pudding, Calves foot pudding, Orange Pudding, Plum Pudding, Baked Apple Pudding, Omelette, Lemon Cakes, Rump of Beef, Savory Jelly, preserve Apricots, Sponge Cake, Puff Paste, Tart Paste, Stout & crisp Tart Paste, Paste for Meat or Savory Pies, Potatoe Soup, Ox cheek Soup, Pea Soup, Spring Soup, pot Shrimps, Tincture for Preserving the Teeth, Scouring mops, make Jam, Strawberry Jam, Apple Jelly, Orange Jelly, Raspberry Cream, Lemon whips, Cherries in Brandy, Ginger Beer in powders, Roll a Breast of Mutton, Gooseberry Pudding, Apple Pudding in Tins, Boiled Lemon Pudding, Lemon Pudding.