Title: Eighteenth Century Manuscript Cookery Receipt Book Author: Place: England Publisher: Date: c. 1707 Description: Manuscript receipt book, in English. 87 leaves (52 of which are blank). (Folio) 32x20 cm (12½x8") period full paneled calf, modern rebacking. Approximately 164 recipes, in three different neat hands, covering a broad range of English cookery. The recipes are loosely arranged by type: wines, fruit-based sweets and preserves, fancy meat dishes, cakes, etc. Recipes include: Cherry Wine, Gooseberry Wine, Mead, Calf Foot Jelly, York Gingerbread, Pound Cake, Carroway Cake, Spanish Creame, How to Preserve Stone Frute, White Marmalet of Quinces, Rise Florentine, To Collar a Pig, To make a friggacy of chicken [lamb, rabbit], To Make Chocolate Pudding; and many more. An early owner, Mrs. Rachel Kirk, has inked her name inside the front cover, dated 1707. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear to binding; leaves with occasional smears and stains, small area of worm tunneling in lower margins, touch text in only a few pages; very good. Item number: 240651
Title: Eighteenth Century Manuscript Cookery Receipt Book Author: Place: England Publisher: Date: c. 1707 Description: Manuscript receipt book, in English. 87 leaves (52 of which are blank). (Folio) 32x20 cm (12½x8") period full paneled calf, modern rebacking. Approximately 164 recipes, in three different neat hands, covering a broad range of English cookery. The recipes are loosely arranged by type: wines, fruit-based sweets and preserves, fancy meat dishes, cakes, etc. Recipes include: Cherry Wine, Gooseberry Wine, Mead, Calf Foot Jelly, York Gingerbread, Pound Cake, Carroway Cake, Spanish Creame, How to Preserve Stone Frute, White Marmalet of Quinces, Rise Florentine, To Collar a Pig, To make a friggacy of chicken [lamb, rabbit], To Make Chocolate Pudding; and many more. An early owner, Mrs. Rachel Kirk, has inked her name inside the front cover, dated 1707. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear to binding; leaves with occasional smears and stains, small area of worm tunneling in lower margins, touch text in only a few pages; very good. Item number: 240651
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