Manuscript Location

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

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

1766-1780

Description

The inside front cover of this 90-page English recipe book is inscribed "Herbert Beaver - This Book in Blank was given me by the Revd. Mr. Robert Rowe Vicar of Pilton (Somersett) July 14th, 1765". However, the book is written in many different hands, and only the first 12 pages appear to be in the hand of Mr. Beaver. Many of the recipes in the book (indeed nearly all after page 52) are medical. The culinary recipes include whipt Sullibulbs; Mrs. Smokes Suet Pudding; Boiled Ground rice pudding; Scotch Collops; Stew Carp; Thin Pancake; Ragout of Breast of Veal; White Sauce for Carp or Tench; To Pot Salmon; Apple Pudding to Bake; trifle [copied from Susannah Carter's "The Frugal Housewife," first published in London in 1772]; bread & butter pudding; Snow Cream; Lemon Pudding; good Rice Pudding; Mrs. Beavers way to make Walnut Catchup; To Collar Eels; To Hash a Calf's Head; balls of Gravy; fry Lamb stakes; To make a Pea Soop; To Pickle white Cabbage; To make Calves Feet Jelly; To Pot Beef; To preserve Oranges; To Make Orange Marmalade; Lemon Cheese Cakes; pickle Musherooms; pickle Girkins; pickle Walnut Green; German Puffs; To Preserve Cucumbers Equal to any India Sweetmeat; To Do Brandy Fruit; To make Ice Creams; Prussian Cake; a Cake; India Pickle [with commentary by a later writer]; Almond Cheese Cakes; Plumb Pudding; Mince Pye's; Cure Ham; Rice Pudding; Recipe for destroying the putrid smell which meat acquires during hot weather; A Seed Cake; Recipe for my plumb pudding; To make Bacon; Cucumber Catchup; Gingerbread buttons; Potatoe Yeast; Pickle Salmon.