A legible cookery manuscript of approximately 360 recipes, 345 of which are in a single hand. Recipes range from asparagus salad to Spanish sausage to how to prepare sardines to almond tortes. An earlier owner has attributed the recipes to Southern Germany, possibly the Upper Palatinate. --From bookshop note laid in the item Also includes more modern bookplate,name Hans Gieraths with woodbock print style image of a bearded, barefoot man sitting on a brick (bread oven?) holding a peel or shovel.