Lot 184
COOKERY -
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE & GENERAL ACCOUNTS BOOK, C. 1690
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Small 8vo, 4 Contents leaves & 90 pp. of recipes, including to "pickle cowcombers, Gingerbread, White meade, Oringe puding, good Cake, biskit puding, puff paste, Quince wine, Fryed Applepies, Cheesecakes, Rogoe of Rabbits... [&c.], also detailing Births and Deaths of children of Thomas Buckworth & Margret Thomson, late 17th century, contemporary calf, clasps, spine worn
Footnote
Note: The notability of the Buckworths dates from a 17th century bishop, Theophilus Buckworth, a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and Bishop of Dromore. The Buckworths held land in Moulton near Spalding. Lincolnshire and migrated to Canada in the 19th century where they played a formative role in the iron industry.