This full calf binding had the spine rebacked very professionally in the 19th century. There are 240 pages of which 140 are written. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 11 x 16.55 cm.) This English cookery manuscript has a bookplate showing the family coat of...
Receiptes. By Robert Godfrey. England 1665. The folio is blind tooled calf antique with raised bands and red lettering label. There are 334 pages of which 179 are written. The folio is written in several hands, some toward the end bearing late 18th...
This manuscript is in the original calf binding from the 18th century, with 340 pages of which 124 are written. There are 314 recipes on 200 leaves. The recipe book is written in many hands. After each recipe are the names of the cooks and scribes...
Receipts of Pastry and Cookery For the Use of his Scholars. 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...
Anne Bayne Booke [of Recipes] Circa 1700. The book has 224 pages in full calf with gilted original binding. (The frontispiece states "Ann Bayne Booke. This receipt book belonges to my Great Aunt Rachel Bayne daughter I believe of the above Anne...
This book has its original calf binding, with 166 pages of which 126 are written. These recipes, covering 94 pages, include metrical paraphrases of the psalms and extracts from Tillotson's sermons, written in three different hands. The most...
A very appealing manuscript cookbook, accomplished in a attractive,prefectly legible hand, containing many interesting recipes such as "To Make Marmalace of Quinces," To Jug a Hare," "Birds in Capuchins," "To Dress Necks of Mutton the West Indian...
Contemporary binding of a collection of recipes written in different hands. Recipes are on paper of differing sizes, 10 leaves. Recipes include The Floating Island, red quinces whole, currant wine, buns, pancakes, two recipes for Collar beef, pot...
This book has 230 pages of which 190 are written and was rebound in half calf in the late 19th or early 20th century. The recipes are very unusual. Among them: biscuit pudding with almonds and wines (sack); bread puddings; common plain pudding;...
This mid-18th century book with beautiful calligraphy was written in one hand. Very unusual recipes such as: orange tart or pudding, Pennyrialls pudding, pasty paste, calve's foot pye 2 ways, lamb pye 2 ways, rabbit pye, roast capon with oysters,...
Isabella Carr. 1741. Also dated 1753, Margaret Carr. It is bound in full calf with original leather boards. There are 146 pages of which 109 are written. (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 16 x 21 cm.) It was inscribed by Margaret Carr "her book July 7, 1753."...
Anonymous. Circa 1750 -- 1780. The book is in its original vellum written in several hands. There are 230 pages of which 148 are written. The cookbook is indexed with recipes in other hands pasted in the back. Recipes include: to make French bread,...
Miss Caldwells Book. Manuscript recipe book, 1757 -- 1790. Included is an index with 11 pages of menus or Bills of Fare. This manuscript recipe book is inscribed "Miss Caldwells Book, August the 13 1757," later the property of Catherine Sparks and...
The inside cover of this cookbook and end of the recipes read "M. Ragen" & "From M. Regan to Hannah Wade." There are three pages of accounts listed in the back of the book dated 1759. Purchases of Indian meal and corn indicate American authorship....
A collection of recipes in various hands entitled The Art of Cookery, circa 1760s, with the ownership signature of "James Doak 1762" on inside front cover. It is uncertain whether much, if any, of this manuscript is in the hand of James Doak, but...
Cookery Book. Ann Kenwrick, 1770. (1701 -- 1703 Account Journal) This is a 306 page manuscript of which 253 pages are written. (6 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.; 16 x 40.5 cm.) It is bound in full calf, beautifully written and has an index. The 59 page section...
Anonymous. circa 1770-1790 . This cookbook bound in its original vllum is indexed and the entries are numbered. It has 206 pages of which 50 are written. Recipes include: barley gruel, dry cherry's, lemmon cream, harts horn jelly, a presont strain,...
A collection of 89 numbered recipes in a single hand, signed by one "Jos. Forbes, Dr.[?]" on the final leaf (circa 1790s). No information is available on Joseph (or Josiah) Forbes, though of course there were New Englanders bearing this name during...
Handwritten book of recipes, 97 hand-numbered pages with two laid-in sheets. Gift of Ann Ziegert. Recipes include Mrs. Goldsby's Receipt Italian Cream, Rice Wafles, Pot au Feu, Sago Pudding, A Good Custard, Connecticut Bannock, Potato Cakes, Fresh...
An attractive cookery manuscript, written mostly in one hand. Recipes include, among others, "To make Mushroom Powder, " A Receipt to pickle White Wall-nuts," "To collor A Pigg," "To make Stoughton's Drops," "For Scotch Collops." Near the end of...