Handwritten Cookbook, 1600-1963 1700-1900

Item — Volume: CZ1

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1600-1963 1700-1900

Extent

From the Collection: 10.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Czech

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

Handwritten cookbook of Helena Dvorakova, Orechovka, Cukrovarnickaul 25. This Czech and English cookery manuscript with recipes is written in both languages. The English recipes are a cross mixture of cuisines such as mock turtle soup, oxtail soup, crab soup, potage St. Germain, duchess soup, Italian tomato salad, pear salad, chicken salad in eclavis, moccha ice-box cake and pineapple ice-box cake. The recipes in the Czech language appear to be recipes from the homeland.

Physical Description

This blue hardbound ruled notebook has 198 pages of which 117 are written in blue ink. 1920. The bookseller's plate on front cover is stamped: Alois Frohlich, Praha II, Vaclavske Nam. wl. Kancelarske potreby. Vlastni tiskarna. Marbled page edges