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Historic Mexican cookbooks now online


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"The oldest Mexican cookbook in the University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) collection was never meant for public consumption.

"Handwritten in 1789 by Doña Ignacita, a woman who probably served as the kitchen manager for a well-to-do family, the manuscript includes recipes for such specialties as “hidden vegetable stew,” or potaje escondido, and an orange-hued soup called zopa de naranja.

"Volumes like this 200-year-old specimen—many boasting scribbled notes and stains on their owners’ favorite recipes—form the heart of the university’s collection.

Now, thanks to a renewed digitization campaign, around half of the school’s approximately 100 manuscript cookbooks are available for anyone to browse online, reports Nils Bernstein for Atlas Obscura."

Fll monty at the Smithsonian mag: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dozens-old-mexican-cookbooks-now-available-online-180974186/

At AtlasObscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mexican-cookbook

UTSA Libraries: https://libguides.utsa.edu/MXcookbooks

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