Scottish cookbook [manuscript], [1730-1736].
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Scottish cookbook [manuscript], [1730-1736].
Description
[36] leaves ; 20 x 15 cm
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- Scotland.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 272257
Folger-specific note
Ordered from Adam Weinberger Books, D9519, 2021-08-21, Cat. Konstantinopel. Rare and fine books, item #24. From dealer's description: "SCOTTISH MANUSCRIPT COOKBOOK 24. [COOKBOOK] 37 leaves, dated 1730-1736. In two different hands. 5 last leaves, with lower margin torn away, with some loss of text. Receipts 41-100, 97-153, leaf 1 to 29, plus another receipt book. 30 – 37, with additional (not numbered receipts (bound in). 8vo (190 x 150 mm). Plum Cake, Marmolet peaches, Marmolet of Oranges, Confeit of Orange Skinns, Violet Tablets, How to confeit oranges, making of milks, Rizor creame, Apricot Creame, Goose Berrie Creame, Custard Cakes, pock pudding, German Cake, Suggar Cakes, To pickle any kind of herbes, To make the gill ofred, black, white or black risers, to make cherry wine, to make cordial wine, Jelly of apples. And many, for us, undecipherable names, like for instance a pulatos or pulalos pudding. A curious manuscript, written by two family members (Peggy Duff and Margret Duff). An index of the receipts “take out of Marys book” on 17 verso, on 21 recto, ‘Peggy Duff her Pastery Book’ (in another hand?) and on the last leaf, Marget Duff, receipts 41-100, 97-153, with additional receipts (not numbered bound in). All this with a curious poem, with a date in the margin, “March 10th January 9th Lodovicka? Alep (Allepo??), January 1730. Both texts are perhaps extracted from a larger volume, but clearly belong together. A curious 20 line poem, speaks of “great volumes they go too” and might alluded to the break up of a cookery manuscript. The oldest Scottish receipt book was written by Helen, Countess of Sutherland, with the instructions solely concerned with fruit preservation and jelly making. Our manuscript would probably rank in the top ten of manuscripts known from an early date. https://www.nls.uk/collections/manuscripts/collections/food-history/recipe-books-list/ https://www.manuscriptcookbookssurvey.org/collection/Detail/manuscripts/57"
Folger accession
272257