An early Mexican manuscript cookbook.

An early Mexican manuscript cookbook.

This cookbook, in a tidy and easily legible hand, was likely produced long before the first published Mexican cookbooks appeared in 1831. A table of contents in the rear shows how the book is arranged: meats, cakes, eggs, empanadas, desserts, fritters and tamales, biscuits, sweets, syrups, and nevad...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Manuscript
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Cooking, Mexican.
Cooking, Mexican > History > 19th century > Sources.
Manuscripts > Mexico > 19th century > Specimens.
Cookbooks > Mexico > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Varios guisados
  • Tortas varias
  • Potajes de huebos
  • Empanadas y pasteles
  • Antes y postres
  • Buñuelos y tamales
  • Biscochos y demas
  • Dulces y pastas
  • Jarabes
  • Nevadas.