Sprenger-Meijners, Digna Johanna
Manuscript cookbook ca 1804 | Recept-Boek van “Mevrouw Sprenger geboren Meijners”=Digna Johanna Meyners Vrouwe van Duinbeek (1780-1850), Anno 1804, manuscript recipes ca 110 pp. Cookbook Zeeland starting early 19th century.
Contemporary boards, spine damaged. Neatly handwritten text in a few different hands. Quarto edition. A nice cookbook on laid paper with watermark.
Digna Johanna Meyners Vrouwe van Duinbeek (1780-1850) married Johan Jacob Sprenger (1782-1855). Her parents were Gerard Frans Meyners Heer van Duinbeek (1741-1803) and Johanna Elisabeth Macaré van Serooskerke (1752-1797). His parents were Johan Valentin Sprenger (1734-1794) and Maria Benudina Schorer (1746-1785). Digna Johanna and Johan Jacob married 28 mei 1804 in Middelburg. They had the following children: N.N. Sprenger (1805-1805), Johanna Elisabeth Sprenger (1808-1859), Constantijn Ahaveros Sprenger (1810-1876), Johan Jacob Iman Sprenger (1817-1890) en Lodewijk Hendrik Sprenger (1821-1890).
A few recipes: Om barabrissen te confijten, Zuurvleesch te stoven, om morellen te bakken, Keijzerbrood te bakken, marcipon, Citroen taart, Wafels, Spaansch Beschuijt, Lugt Beschuijt, Pudding, Vriesche wafels, Coppenhaagse Booter taart, Oostenrijkse Booter Taart, Sambal maken, Water room, Ladij Punch, Hartshoorn geleij, Zierikzeesce zuster, Zeekreeften te farceren, Soupe groente, Oubli, Engelsche pudding, Meloenen in zuur (loose leaf), Schildpad-soep van een kalfskop, Het edele gebak, Bereiding van Beef stick, Om Paling in te maken, Kruiden Wijn, Hazebol, etc. With register. 4 loose leafs.
Sometimes references to the ladies who “own” the recipe: Mevrouw Van Visvliet, geboren Chalmers. Van Mevr. J.E. Meijners geboren Macaré (Johanna Elizabeth Macaré died 1773 Middelburg). Wafelen van vrouw Verhulst.
On the flyleaf are more names in pencil, most likely the former owners of this cookbook: Sprenger-Meijners, Sprenger-Lantsheer, Sprenger-Lambrechtsen, Gildemeester-Sprenger, v.d. Dries- Gildemeester. This is most likely Constance Magdalena Louise van den Dries – Van Gheel Gildemeester, born in 1917. One of the first women in the KNIL ( Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger). (source: onsland.nl/personen). Her mother was Clementine Frederika Sprenger and married Frans Paul Albert van den Dries – Van Gheel Gildemeester.
SKU: 110708
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