Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Kidder, E. (Edward), 1665 or 6-1739.

Receipts of pastry and cookery [manuscript] : for the use of his scholars / by Ed. Kidder.

[England, 17--]

37 leaves : paper ; 182 x 117 (165 x 113) mm. bound to 187 x 123 mm.

Recipe book with a printed title page and manuscript collection of recipes. There is a table of contents for the various sections (p. 70) which include recipes for pies, pastries, cakes, broths, dressing fish, collaring, potting, pickling, and making jellies.

Ms. codex.

Title from printed title page, possibly from London, that reads in full: Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars by Ed. Kidder; who teacheth at his school on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, in the afternoon, in St. Martin's Le Grand; and on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, in the afternoon, at his school next to Furnival's Inn in Holborn; and ladies may be taught at their own houses.

Pagination: Paper, i + 37 + i; [iii], 1-66, [67-71]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one recipe in a second hand (p. 71).

Binding: 18th-century[?] stamped leather, with gilt stamped title on spine: Kidder Receipts.

Origin: Written in England in the 18th century.

UPenn Ms. Codex 625

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 625