Kochbuch. 1824. [German manuscript]

German. [Austria?], 1824. Large square duodecimo in 4s, (21 x 17.5 cm.), 644 pages. Manuscript text in German. Pages are ruled and dated, and the recipes are numbered as well. Table of contents; index. A handsome, large, and very comprehensive collection of handwritten recipes, containing eight hundred twenty-five recipes, with a forty-eight page table of contents and a nearly one hundred page index. The recipes provide instructions for soups, cakes and other baked goods, side dishes, eggs, puddings, French style cuisine, veal, and a large number of fish and shellfish. The name of the cookbook's compiler, and some of the terms used in recipes (Lebzelten for Lebkuchen, aka gingerbread) suggests an Austrian or possibly Bavarian origin. Original mottled, paper-covered boards backed in quarter speckled calf; gilt-titled red leather label on spine, all edges stained red; hinges and extremities rubbed. Very good.