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...
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...
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 interestinig manuscript book is a receipt book in both senses of the word. It starts out with a definitionof "receipt" in the accounting sense, executed in a very neat and studied hand, followed by examples of receipts. After ten pages the...
Domestic Cookery. Manuscript Cookbook. Owned by Jane Lymburner, Bellfast. Dated Jan. 2, 1817. Original wrappers, hand sewn at edges. Included are recipes for cooking and medicinal needs. There are 86 pages. There is an interesting cross selection...
The front cover is inscribed "Herbert Beaver- This Book in Blank was given me by the Revd. Mr. Robert Rowe Vicar of Pilton (Somersett) July 14th, 1765". Later on the back cover it is inscribed "Edward C. Lowe, Cheltenham, Eng. Mar. 1939." There are...
This book has 250 pages of which 242 are written. The manuscript was signed at beginning and end "Francis Smith his Book 1704," and was written mainly in one hand with some later additions. Francis Smith (born 1687) of Amesbury, Wiltshire, compiles...
Anonymous. 1820. This book, rebound in grey boards, has 250 pages of which 217 are written. This recipe book contains some 360 recipes--culinary, household, and medical--written clearly on about 210 pages. Recipes include: Pomade Divine-Beef Marrow...
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...
This book is bound in its original vellum and has very nice sketches. The first half is in English, while the second half is in French. It is of English origin. There are 176 pages of which 82 are written. The recipes include: to preserve whole or...
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,...
This cookbook manuscript is comprised of one manscript sewn inside another. The first, dated 1824, is in a very neat hand. The second, in a different hand, includes the dates 1851 and 1855. Both sections of the book contain many recipes for cakes,...
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....