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Title
[Nineteenth-century Mexican manuscript cookbook notebooks]
Date Created and/or Issued
18--?
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection
Rights Information
Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Collection of manuscript Mexican recipes written in various hands on three crudely stitched notebooks. Sample recipes include: [1] Pollos emperegilado, pollos secos, buey aprensado, frijoles gordos, asadera de ternera Mechad, ternera en estofado de xitomate; [2] Guisos, salsa de pichones ó codornices, sopa de calabaza, bacalado en chile, pipián de ajonjolí, codornices en caldillo mexicano, salchichas, cochinito en adobo, leche de pina, buñuelos de camote, albóndigas francsesas de carnero, chocolate, chorisones á la mexicana; [3] Gallina deshuesada, postre de mantequilla, ponche de leche, leche de chirimolla, leche de piñones con almendras, buñuelos de viento, pasta de almendras. Also a handwritten medical remedy on loose sheet laid in the third notebook: "Remedios para los colicos."
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Text
The three volumes housed together
Title devised by cataloger
First leaf inverted on first notebook of 17 pages (i.e. begins with page 3 instead of page 2)
Mexico
Type
text
Format
3 volumes (2-17; [31]; [40] pages) ; 22 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1001356c
Language
Spanish
Subject
Manuscripts
Cookbooks
Cooking
Cooking, Mexican
Mexico
Place
Mexico

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