SC - oop 18th century cookery book fascimele online

[Acanthus Books]

Thank you for sharing this link, very interesting to see this facsimile 
online. Edward Kidder was proprietor of the first known cooking school in 
England, this manuscript receipt book contains the recipes taught to his 
students. A similar manuscript was donated to the Univ. of Iowa Library by 
Chef Louis Szathmary of Chicago, and reprinted in facsimile a few years ago 
by U of Iowa Press (still in print, by the way). The manuscript copies have 
always been a mystery, I suppose it has generally been assumed when a 
student took a class from Kidder she received a blank book containing only 
Kidder's preprinted title page and would copy the receipts for her own use, 
but there are also extant copies of Kidder's receipts entirely in printed 
book form. Comparing the U of Iowa manuscript facsimile to the U Penn 
facsimile, the printed title page is slightly different but the two books 
have obviously been copied by the same person. Other manuscript copies are 
held by Vassar and U of Chicago, would be interesting to know whether they 
are in the same hand.
Amanda
Acanthus Books
http://www.acanthus-books.com

At 06:56 PM 5/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>  http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/diaries/kidder/
>
>It is a facsimile of an 18th century cookery book, oop but nifty.
>margali
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