Manuscript Location

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center for Special Collections

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

ca. 1803

Description

This English cookbook of 36 pages is dated March 13, 1803, on the inside back cover. The book is written in four or more anonymous hands, all of which appear throughout the volume, suggesting that the book was a collaborative project. The book contains sixty-five culinary recipes, including tea biscuits (page 1), gingerbread nuts (page 2), candied horehound (page 7), sago pudding (page 11), Gloucester jelly (page 11), lamb chops (page 14), a method of preserving fruit without sugar for house or sea stores (page 16), apple omelet (page 19), black currant wine (page 28), ginger beer (page 29), and pancakes (page 35).  Some of the recipes are attributed: Mrs. Barker (page 9), Dr. Fenton (page 10), Sir Richard Jebb (page 11), Mrs. Lampson (page 12), and Dr. Hawkins (page 12), and Transactions of the Society of Arts (page 16).