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Description
Receipt book containing recipes for wines, spirits and liquors, including aguardientes, also some recipes for Mexican cuisine as well as housekeeping records and anecdotes. Several pages contain directions for making photographic chemicals, including how to prepare albumen photographic paper. Other items: instructions on making various colored varnishes, how to chemically whiten wax, how to make matches, a few recipes for household health remedies and cosmetics, and the like. Scattered leaves include accounting entries. Entries on the last few leaves are dated 1866. Leaves 28 and 63-67 have been excised from the volume. An index is included at the end of the volume Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Text Binding: old limp calf Place of production derived from internal evidence Mexico
Type
text
Format
1 volume (102 leaves) ; 32 x 23 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb13422718
Language
Spanish
Subject
Home economics Liquors Sources Nineteenth century Photography--Developing and developers Photographic chemicals Cooking, Mexican History Mexico
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