BEIN 2005 970: Wormed in bottom margin throughout, no loss of text. Autograph: Elenor Hatcher her booke 1666. Autograph: Rachel Dando her book. Autograph: Rachel Wilson her book. Autograph: Sarah Baylie her hand. Ms. notes on binders blank at end. Binding: contemporary limp vellum with small angel ornament and motto 'Gloria Deo' stamped on front and back, probably the publisher's binding. No. 1 of 2 titles bound together., "Read, practice, and censure.", Dedication signed: H. Plat., Printing attributed to H. Lownes. Cf. STC., Signatures: A-H¹²., Text within ornamental border., and Includes index.
Publisher:
Printed by H[umfrey].L[ownes]. and are to be sould by Arthur Iohnson
This manuscript cookery book, with leaves from a sixteenth-century Bible as endpapers, offers a collection of mid-eighteenth century recipes ranging from plague water to chocolate puffs. It contains 502 recipes arranged in 14 sections, with such titles as Wet Sweet Meats; Dry Sweet Meats; Creams and Cheeses; Possetts and Sillibubs; Puddings and Pyes; Soups and Made Dishes; To Pickell; and The Side Dishes. These sections contain recipes for preserves; syrups; biscuits; dried fruit; jellies; creams; wines; and cakes; as well as savory dishes such as calves’ foot pudding; hedgehog pudding; roast eel and lobsters; mutton; veal; shrimp; and chicken. These recipes are followed by a section titled Bills of Fare, which contains lists of exemplary first and second course dishes, accompanied by two bills of fare in illustrated form.
Description:
Printed endpapers from 16th century bible.
Subject (Topic):
Canning and preserving, Cooking (Puddings), Cooking, English, Menus, Recipes --Great Britain, and Wine and wine making --Great Britain
Printed for Nath. Crouch, at the George at the lower end of Cornhil over against the Stocks-Market
Subject (Topic):
Beauty, Personal --Early works to 1800, Cookery, English --Early works to 1800, Fishing --Early works to 1800, and Medicine, Popular --Early works to 1800
