Manuscript Location

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

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

mid 19th century

Description

This book comprises 113 pages of recipes and a complete (if not entirely accurate) index on 5 pages in the back. The book appears to have been written by a single individual, initially in a neat hand but more hurriedly, with less control, as the book proceeds, particularly after page 70. Most of the recipes are standard mid-nineteenth-century British. They skew somewhat toward puddings, dessert creams, cakes, pickles, breads, preserves, and wines. Several recipes contain comments that imply they were tried. For example, a note at the end of Baked Apple Pudding, page 74, reads "most approved by [illegible] for its simplicity."