Libro borrador de varios asuntos, 1866 : manuscript

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

• 1866

• Huerta, Ignacio

1 volume (102 leaves) ; 32 x 23 cm

text

Binding: old limp calf

Place of production derived from internal evidence

• Mexico

• Cooking, Mexican
• History
• Home economics
• Liquors
• Nineteenth century
• Photographic chemicals
• Photography--Developing and developers
• Sources

• text

• Spanish; Castilian

Mms: 991003390889706535

Mexico

Public domain (US)

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2023-09-15