Volumes contain manuscript recipes for Mexican cuisine, purportedly from the compiler's mother and grandmother. The vendor suggests the family's origin as Puebla, Mexico, though the recipes are not limited to this region and include dishes from Jalisco, Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico. The physical make-up of the volumes incorporate aspects of remboîtage and decalcomania

• 1888-1889

• Rivera, Virgina

2 volumes (52; 44 unnumbered pages) ; 21 x 13 cm

text

Bindings: repurposed leather book bindings, with applied manuscript paper labels

Title from title page of first volume

• Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico)

• Cooking
• Cooking, Mexican

• text

• Spanish; Castilian

V.R

Mexico,

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