Cookbook, Anonymous, circa 1886
Dates
- Creation: circa 1886
Full Extent
From the Collection: 10.50 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Materials Specific Details
Recipes include: Sponge Pudding, Shrewsbury Cakes, Cakes, Imitation Sausages, Macaroni Pudding, Cabinet pudding, Orange Marmalade, Rice Cake, Trifle, The Whip, Lobster Pudding, Common plum Cake, Lemon Dumplings, Rice Blancmange, Rice Cheesecakes, Pomrne Russe, Food for Babes, Irish Cake, Cocoanut Cheesecake, Cheap Dish, Cheap Stew, White Wine Whey, Barley Water, Chutney Sauce, Preserved pine apples, Fruit cheese, Raspberry Cream (without cream), Rhubarb Mould. Medical recipes: for Cholera, Diarhea, White cough mixture, brown cough drops, etc. It is interesting to note that No. 122 is "Pea Soup Receipt in the South Kensington Museum."
Physical Description
This brown leather book, circa 1886, has 125 pages and is indexed. Pages are all loose. Half of brass clasp still present. Some minor repairs on page edges.
Dimensions
(6 x 3 1/2 in.; 15 x 8 cm.)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5921
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-spec@uiowa.edu
