[Manuscript cookbook] Cookbook of D.C.A. Sweerts de Landas

With ± 300 manuscripts in various 19th-century hands. 4to, in renewed halfcloth with new endpapers. Internally well-preserved cookbook with registers. With recipes such as "Ragou van Duiven", "Prikstruif", "Snoek à la Française", "Roggebroodspudding" and "Broeder in den Pot".

Sweerts de Landas was the grandmother of the husband of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (Mata Hari) (1876-1917). The book was written in several hands, and comes from the estate of Mata Hari, which was sold at auction several years ago. Added: De Indische Keuken. De kookkunst. Bewerkt door Mevr. H.H.C. Gediplomeerde der Haagsche Kookschool. Amsterdam, Van Holkema en Warendorf, c. 1910.