Recipe Collection, 19th Century

Date:
c. 1820-1878
Reference:
MS.5853
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Recipe Collection, 19th Century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of culinary, household and medicinal remedies. The recipes were collected by Mrs M H Turnbull, who appears to have been in India in the 1820s, and later at Chobham Place, Surrey, and at Abingdon, Berks. A number of items relate to curry and chutney, and to the preservation of articles from white ants.

Publication/Creation

c. 1820-1878

Physical description

95 items

Acquisition note

Stevens' 3 March 1931, lot 409.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation project. Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/160.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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  • acc. 83739