Glossary: cookery, including joints of animals

Glossary of terms compiled from Eighteenth century English cookery-books. A list of the names used for the different joints and parts of animals. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with four pen-drawings of joints of beef, mutton, etc. copied from 'The frugal housewife. 1823' by Susanna Carter. The last 13 ll. contain a list of French terms extracted from 'Le Ménagier' (Paris, 1846).

c. 1910-1925

1 volume 3 ll. + 8 ff. + 61 ll. 4to. 23 × 18 cm. Unbound in patent folder. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery-books.