Manuscript volume, on paper, in several hands, containing accounts and recipes apparently recorded by members of the Bones family of Essex. There are thirteen cookery recipes for wines and cordials, orange water, oyster loaves and gingerbread. Medica...
Description:
Annotations and pen trials in various hands on pastedowns and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., Great Britain., and Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Bone family. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, Households, Medicine, Plague, Recipes, and Economic conditions
Household accounts book for Hardwicke House on the banks of the river Thames in Oxfordshire includes itemized payments to kitchen staff as well as lists of ingredients and the quantities purchased. The household employed two cooks during this period; ...
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Hardwick House, a Tudor-style house on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire. It was the home for over 130 years of the Powys descendants.