• English Cookbook with Sweets Recipes in Front, Drinks Recipes in Back, ca. 1700-1750
    English Cookbook with Sweets Recipes in Front, Drinks Recipes in Back
English Cookbook with Sweets Recipes in Front, Drinks Recipes in Back, ca. 1700-1750
English Cookbook with Sweets Recipes in Front, Drinks Recipes in Back, ca. 1700-1750

English Cookbook with Sweets Recipes in Front, Drinks Recipes in Back, ca. 1700-1750

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[Library Title: Cookbook : manuscript, [17--].]

Manuscript Location
University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center
Holding Library Call No.
CrMs111
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
1396
Place of Origin
England
Date of Composition
ca. 1700-1750
Description

Bound within green vellum covers, this eighteenth-century English recipe book of approximately 107 written pages is in several different hands. Approximately 82 pages of recipes are written from the front of the notebook. These recipes primarily concern sweets such as preserves, biscuits, and cakes. Additional recipes are written from the back of the notebook, mostly focusing on wines and other drinks such as milk punch, shrub, ale, and lemonade. There are many blank pages between the two sections. Many recipes are attributed, including “Almond Jumballs” from “My Grandmother Digges,” Mrs. Brandon’s "Prawlins,” “To Preserve Necterens” from “Lady Chimist,” and several wines from Aunt Turner.

Some recipes are difficult to read due to the handwriting or to ink bleed-through. An advertisement for “Richard Stoakes, Stow Maker,” of London, has been pasted in as an endpaper. A bookplate indicates that Howard C. Levis owned the manuscript at one point.