[Rarebooks] FS: 1839 MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK

[Charles Agvent]

[COOKERY]. MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK. Reading [UK], 1839. Calf-backed 
boards, 6-1/2" x 7-3/4". An English Manuscript Recipe book signed on the 
front pastedown "Mrs Garrard/Friar St./Reading/Berks 39" consisting of 
100 pages, mostly not numbered and nearly all of which are filled in 
with manuscript recipes, with the first two pages being a numbered 
index, as well as a dozen or so loose pages of recipes in various hands 
laid in. Included are wines, pies, cakes, etc. Some examples are Pickled 
Mushroom Sauce, Baked Apple Pudding, Spunge Cake, Walnut Catsup Soy, 
Oyster Sausages, Siberian Crabs, Ginger Beer, Ginger Wine, etc. Roughly 
about 150 recipes in all. Fairly clean and readable; spine lacking, 
boards loose but holding. Good. (#020853) $950

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/020853/cookery/manuscript-recipe-book

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