Summary: Manuscript recipe book, 1705, containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from back to front with book reversed. It contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals.
Physical description: 1 volume: 18cm; 106 leaves.
Provenance: Forms part of the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts
Cite as: U. of Penn Ms. Codex 624
Held by: Department of Special Collections, University
of Pennysylvania Library
Table of Contents
As was customary for the period, this book is divided into two
sections, accomplished by turning the book upside down and beginning again
from the back. Though this strategy was intended to divide cookery from
medicine, the categories are not always consistent nor evenly divided,
such as Petre's book which has more medicinals than recipes.
For web presentation then, Petre's book is divided into two sections, each independent of the other. They are as follows:
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