MANUSCRIT. - BOOK OF RECIPES OF A COOK]. Late 18th and 19th - Lot 101

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MANUSCRIT. - BOOK OF RECIPES OF A COOK]. Late 18th and 19th - Lot 101
MANUSCRIT. - BOOK OF RECIPES OF A COOK]. Late 18th and 19th century. Small in-4, vellum, inscription in ink almost illegible on the first cover, closing laces (Binding of the time). 94 ff., some paginated, others left blank, the last ones written on the reverse side of the volume. Manuscript in black ink on laid paper, by several hands. The first 14 ff. contain accounts and receipts of sums received for the preparation of dishes or the purchase of food and ingredients. These memoirs are dated (Brussels) 1790 to 1793, comments were added in 1859 and 1861. The last 15 ff. (written backwards at the end of the book) contain copies of correspondence dated La Cambre (Belgium?), 1783, signed "Your most humble and obedient servant C.A. van Stichel" and addressed to a "Mademoiselle" not better identified. This is followed by a prayer, other accounts (1789-1797), laundry notes, remedies for worms and gout, etc. The gastronomic part occupies the largest part of the manuscript: eggs in mirror, how to cook potatoes, veal chops with shallot sauce, pie with mirtillas, stuffed pig's ears, mutton chops, ox tongue, veal kidney soufflé, sauce for boiled shoulder of mutton, stuffed salads, pigeons with toadstools?...], chicken with celery, tartar sauce, how to put beef in vinegar, beef à la mode, how to cook sturgeon in broth, recipe for pickles, cherries in vinegar, veal rice, chicken with chestnuts, boiled shoulder of mutton, bisque, mutton chops with macaroni, hare pâté, wild rabbit, gravy, jugged hare, eel tartar, dandelions, croquettes, mutton chops with chestnuts, currant buns, potato bread, beef carbonade, puffed macaroni, rice bread, semolina bread, eggs with mustard, cream ice cream, pies, galettes, lobster cooking, quince jelly, nun's farts, puffed omelette, wine cream, cherries on a skewer, cauliflower sauce, broccoli, chopped turnips, cod in sticks, calf's head in turtles, etc., etc... First few leaves cut out. Dirty vellum.
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