Cookery-books: 19th cent.

Date:
c. 1800-c. 1825
Reference:
MS.1831
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Cookery-books: 19th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery, medical and household receipts. Written by an early 19th cent. hand, except for the last 5 ll., which include a receipt for 'mushroom catchup', taken from 'Apicius redivivus' by William Kitchener [1775-1827]: this was first published in 1818, and there were several later editions, the seventh in 1827.

Publication/Creation

c. 1800-c. 1825

Physical description

1 volume 51 ll. first bl.. 4to. 231/2 x 19 cm. Unbound. Some leaves are probably missing at the end.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/228.

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  • 77043