Handwritten Recipe Book

Published by Not Stated c1866-85, Not Stated, 1866

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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA

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A very scarce handwritten volume of recipes written in different hands, containing many recipes for different meat, sauces, and pudding. A very scarce and unique handwritten recipe book, written in different hands, and including many additional recipes loosely inserted.The bound volume contains a total of one-hundred and six recipes, written across a total of one-hundred and eighty one pages, of which fifty-two are blank.Alongside an additional fifty leaves loosely inserted, all containing recipes, mostly handwritten, some extracted from newspapers.Recipes in this volume include: to boil a calf's head, to boil a turkey, lemon sauce, to boil eels, fennel sauce, to roast venison, to fry beef steak, veal cutlets, stuffing for geese or ducks, brown celery sauce, shallot sauce for boiled mutton, oyster sauce, ox cheek soup, clarified butter, mock turtle, carrot soup, orange preserve, beef tea, elder wine, rhubarb meringue, scotch scones, cheese pudding, white wine whey, and more.Loosely inserted recipes include: French rice fritters, fruit cake, treacle pudding, princess pudding, velvet cream, paisley rolls, macaroni cheese, vegetable pudding, tea cocks, cottage plum pudding, gingerbread, lemon preserve, wine cup, banana pancake, and more.Some of the recipes are dated, with dates ranging between 1866, 1868, 1871, 1880, 1882, and 1885. In the original calf binding. Externally, generally smart, a little rubbed. Spine is faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Small tidemark to the rear paste down, and to the final few pages. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with a few spots and handling marks, as to be expected. Good.…

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Title
Handwritten Recipe Book
Author
Not Stated
Publisher
Not Stated c1866-85, Not Stated
Publication year
1866
Condition
Good
Book Type
book
Binding
Leather
Illustrator
None
Item weight
0.5 kilograms
Dimensions
7.5" by 5.5"

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Thompson Acquisitions Ltd

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