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Ms. Codex 895 - Plowden, Ann M - [Recipe book]
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| Author: |
Plowden, Ann M.
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| Title: |
[Recipe book] [manuscript].
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| Origin: |
[England], 1756-1844.
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| Physical description: |
83 leaves : paper ; 200 x 160 mm. bound to 209 x 166 mm. + 9 notes.
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| Summary: |
Culinary recipes for preserving meats, fish, and fruits; for fowl, hare, venison, mutton, beef, pork, shrimp, lobster, salmon;
for pancakes, cakes, puddings, creams, and jellies; rice dishes, curries, curry powders, Jamaica pepperpot soup, Irish stew,
and salads; for coffee, yeast, leavening, and French bread; for fruit wines, mead, beer, and sherry, including spruce beer
and balm wine. A few recipes are attributed to Soyer and Batchellor, most are undated and without attribution. Two of the
items laid in are from Uckfield, Sussex and Lewes, East Sussex.
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| Provenance: |
Sold by John Price Antiquarian Books (London), 2002.
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| Subject: |
Cooking, English - Early works to 1800.
Beer.
Wine and wine making - Early works to 1800.
Cooking - England - Sussex - 18th century.
Cooking - England - Sussex - 19th century.
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| Form / Genre: |
Codices.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, English - 18th century.
Manuscripts, English - 19th century.
Manuscripts, European.
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| Notes: |
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 83; 1-160, [161-166]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by at least four different hands, with a few items in pencil, copied over in ink.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, rebacked.
Origin: Written in England, 1756 (note, inside upper cover, p. 166) to 1844 (p. 102). Some recipes may be earlier or later
than these dates.
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| Cite as: |
UPenn Ms. Codex 895.
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| Manuscript location: |
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 895
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