Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Kendrick, Eliz.

[Eliz Kendrick recipe book] [manuscript].

[England], 1723-[18--]

182 leaves : paper ; 203 x 157 mm. bound to 206 x 165 mm.

Comprises numerous recipes for wines -- damson, birch, balm, raisin, gooseberry, elder, cowerslap [cowslip], lemon, currant, and mead, among others. Includes recipes for tansies, puddings, cheesecakes, cakes, soups, fish, oysters, preserving meats, pickles, and preserves, with a few household recipes and medicinal recipes for green ointment and a cure for jaundice.

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Ownership inscription and date 1723 (p. i); a large number of early recipes are in the hand of Kendrick. A number of recipes are added in several later hands, some 19th century, undated.

Pagination: 182 leaves; [iv], 1-360 modern pagination in pencil, upper center.

Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in England, from 1723 (p. i) to the 19th century[?].

List of contents [compiled by bookseller?] in curatorial files.

UPenn Ms. Codex 830

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 830