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"From M Regan to Hanna Wade", 1600-1963; 1700-1900

 Item — Volume: US 1

Dates

  • Creation: 1600-1963; 1700-1900

Extent

From the Collection: 10.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Materials Specific Details

The recipes include: To make Past of Oranges; Observations in drying; To make a Whitepott; To preserrve Quinces white; To doe Quinces redd; To make Past; To make Marchpane=stuff; To make past of Apples; To make Marmalad of Orenges; To make Roseberry Cakes; To make Raspberry Cakes, To make Bisket Cakes; To make Marmalad of Abricots; To make Jumbles; To make Maccarones; To make Buttered Loaves; the best kind of perfuming Cakes to Burne; The Ordinary Sort of perfuming Cakes; To make F Singlas; To make Puff & Past, very double & good; To make Quince Cakes; To make Marmalad of Abricots; Marmalade of Abricots; To praeserve Cherries in Gelly; To preserve Quinces redd; To make red Marmalad of Quinces; To make Queddrink a Ruby colour (pippin apples); To make Quiddrink an Amber colour; To make Past of Genova some like Leaves & some like Plums with stalks, and stones some white plums some redd; To Candy all kinds of rootes fruites & Spices; To make Biskettello; To make Orengeau o Py; To make Sugar Cakes; To make a sodden Sallet; to preserve Leamans; To preaserve Quinces white or yeallow.

Physical Description

The inside cover and end of the recipes reads "M. Ragen" & "From M. Regan to Hannah Wade." There are three pages of accounts listed in the back of the book dated 1759. Purchases of Indian meal and corn indicates American authorship. The first part of this manuscript includes handwritten recipes.

Dimensions

162 pages. (3 x 5 1/8 in.; 7.5 x 13 cm

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

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