Cookbook

To the left is the front cover of a Mexican cook book, detailing recipes from cocktails to desserts.

Review: This work concentrates heavily on recipes, formulas, and methods that would be available and easy to use for a domestic Mexican household of ordinary means. Reflecting the nineteenth-century linking of medicine and gastronomy, numerous items concern alimentation as it affects health, disease prevention, and treatment. One chapter, for example, is devoted entirely to preserving fresh foods for later use. Another chapter, “Higiene Domestica: Enfermedades mas comunes,” covers illnesses and their treatments. More than a mere cookbook, this manual also ventures into the area of manners and domestic economy.

Below are scans from a few pages of the cookbook. They are of decorative folk designs, and I think they are beautiful. I also think they will prove to be an inspiration for future design work.