[Nineteenth-century Mexican manuscript cookbook notebooks]

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."

• 18--?

3 volumes (2-17; [31]; [40] pages) ; 22 cm

text

First leaf inverted on first notebook of 17 pages (i.e. begins with page 3 instead of page 2)

The three volumes housed together

Title devised by cataloger

• Mexico

• Cookbooks
• Cooking
• Cooking, Mexican
• Manuscripts

• text

• Spanish; Castilian

Mms: 991004483439706535

Mexico

Public domain (US)

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2023-10-03