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Th. Mayer recipe book

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  • 1860 to 1878
Summary
  • The Th. Mayer recipe book is a handwritten notebook, dated 1860-1878, with "Th. Mayer, confiseur patisier de Thann Haut Rhin, France, 1860," written on the front cover, indicating the author worked as a pastry chef in Thann, Haut-Rhin, France. It contains a variety of recipes for edible and non-edible items. Food recipes include mainly desserts, sweets, and pastry, with accompanying sketches and diagrams to show what they should look like when finished. The recipes are complex, likely meant for special occasions or gourmet restaurants, indicative of the haute cuisine trend that was developing in France at the time. Non-edible recipes include fireworks, eau de cologne, colored ink, absinthe, rat poison, and others. The book is written almost entirely in French with 4 pages in English, and the end of the book contains an index of recipes, as well as a design for a “percolator” and three pages of notes on French measurements. A ticket to the Tuileries, which would have been in ruins at the time, is also included in the book, dated 1878. The recipe book was owned by prominent cookbook collector, Eloise Schofield, and contains her embossed seal.
Description
  • The book is written almost entirely in French.
Item Identifier
  • SPEC.RARE.0063
Call Number
  • SPEC.RARE.0063 Box 1
Collection Identifier
  • SPEC.RARE.0063
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  • Digitized from Th. Mayer recipe book, SPEC.RARE.0063, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University.
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  • 23 x 18cm
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  • The Ohio State University Libraries believes this object is in the Public Domain in the United States; users are responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
Credit line: The Ohio State University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

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