Cooking Recipes, 1700
Dates
- Creation: 1700
Extent
From the Collection: 10.50 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Materials Specific Details
These recipes, covering 94 pages, include metrical paraphrases of the psalms and extracts from Tillotson's sermons, written in three different hands. The first hand is the psalms and poems, very neat and ruled. the second is recipies, messy and much darker. The third, sermons, starts from the back of the book, and is upside down to the others. The most interesting recipes are: white and black pudding, how to dress a carp, leek soup (with psalms), calves head hash, oyster sauce for fowl, how to pot lampreys, to fry artichokes, etc.
Physical Description
This book has its original calf binding, with 166 pages of which 126 are written.
Dimensions
4 1/2 x 7 in.; 11.5 x 17.5 cm.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
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319-335-5900 (Fax)
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