English cookbook, 1770-1790

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Manuscript Location
University of Iowa Main Library, Special Collections, Szathmary Culinary Archive
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
508
Place of Origin
England
Date of Composition
1770-1790
Description
Written in a single, uncommonly beautiful hand, this cookbook of approximately 50 pages features a complete index at the front followed by 107 numbered recipes, of which about 35 are culinary and the rest medical. The culinary recipes mostly comprise puddings, dessert creams and jellies, fruit preserves, and pickled meats. They are typical of the second half of the eighteenth century