Swiss recipe book

Object type Manuscript / Muniment Record level Item

Details

ID
ms38990
Title
Swiss recipe book
Description
Swiss Renaissance recipe book.
c.120 recipes in two distinct hands.


Contents: Numerous recipes for eggs including scrambled eggs, omelet, filled eggs, baked eggs, "hard-bitten" eggs etc;
recipes for fish including roasted eel, roasted carp, boiled carp;
Soups inc. milk-soup, a cabbage soup "very useful for your health", pigeon soup, fasting soup;
Meat including roasted capon, roasted veal, roasted calf's liver, roasted goose, fried sausage, sheeps feet, fatty sheep gut, roasted rabbit, roasted chicken, recipes for delicious birds, roasted duck, roasted beef, calves’ kidneys fried, veal (cold dish), different kind of sausages, pheasant, filled breast of veal, calf's head, veal shank, venison, roasted lamb, fried snails, fried small birds, roast snipe;
Pastry with rabbits, mushrooms;
Cakes and Pastries inc. pancake, rose-cake, bread, cooked apple, filled pears, almond-mash, pudding.


Hapsburg double-headed eagle watermark.


Small label "Anno 1625 pro paschate communicavit" pasted to lower corner of last leaf indicating that these were possibly compiled for an Easter Feast.


Binding: Simple blank paper wraps with no evidence of being bound.


Transcription and translation available.
Collection
Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections
Parent record
Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections Parent record level Collection
Hierarchy
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Date
[ca. 1600 - 1625]
Physical description
Small 4to., 22 x 17.5 cm., German cursive script.
Language
Extent
  • 56pp
Department
Special Collections - Archive Collections
Record level
Item
Credit line
Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ID: ms38990

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