Lot 346
Cookery - Manuscript Recipe Books
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Manuscript in various hands, c. 1827. Square 8vo, 206 pages of recipes, 10 pages of index at beginning, including recipes such as Mrs Place's orange wine, Mrs Gordon's dram, Miss Hillington's beastling pudding, To make Dutch waffles, Mrs Hewgill Smeaton's cream cheese, To make brain cakes or calf head hash, A fire-proof and waterproof cement, To make man dram, Method of raising & curing rhubarb by Sir William Fordice, To dry apricots like Prunella's, Doctor Kilvington's sweetning physick, Receipt from a young lady, Infusion for the piles, contemporary vellum backed boards, heavily rubbed; [Ibid.] Manuscript in various hands, 1827. 8vo, 95 pages of recipes, including For cleaning furniture, Sweet meat dumplings, Marmalade jelly, To extract a thorn, Apple water for an invalid, Ginger pudding, contemporary half red morocco, rubbed at edges (2)