Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 10,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(MEXICAN COOKERY.) Cruces, Ana Maria. Libro de cosina, en q´se contienen varias cosas de guisados desentes y sabrosos y de consiguiente otros bocaditos dulce para postres. [5], 13, [29] manuscript pages. 8vo, original marbled wrappers, minor wear, minor dampstaining. 22 May 1821

Additional Details

A very early manuscript, created ten years before the first published Mexican cookbook. It includes 71 numbered recipes for savory dishes and 11 for sweets. Distinctly Mexican dishes include "Xitomate desente" (23), "mole ohaxaqueno" (29), and condumbio (dulce 1),with a variant made with mamey (4).