1822 Handwritten Recipe Book

Description

Leather Binding, Original Source

A very scarce and unique handwritten recipe book, dated 1822 in the compiler's hand to the first page.

The volume contains a total of fifty-two recipes, written across fifty six pages.

These recipes, written in two different hands, often include weights and measures of ingredients.

Many of the recipes are for sweet dishes and deserts, although there are a number of savoury recipes, and a surprising presence of international cuisine, including instructions for making curry powder.

Recipes include: mince meat; orange jelly; lemon solids; short bread; to stew pear; plum cake; damson cheese; 'a good curry'; Italian cheese; egg curd; macaroni; lobster cutlets; 'to dry apples'; turnip soup; lemon pudding; apple jelly; plum cake; pound cake; curry powder; 'to make yeast'; biscuit pudding, and concluding with a guide to making polish for furniture.