MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - ARNOLD SHIRCLIFFE COLLECTION

first half nineteenth century

Culinary, household and medicinal recipe book, closely written in several hands, each recipe neatly ruled, the titles written in the left hand margins, including "To make Liquidella", "Spanish Flummery", "Hash'd Calves Head", "A cake Poor Knights of Windsor", "Buttered eggs", "To colour Jellies", "To prevent flies from destroying young plants", "Catchup to last 20 years", "British champagne", "Food for bees", "Delicious Orange Pudding", "Soap to wash Silk Stockings", "Cattle – Cows when blown with Clover cure for" ("...If the Cattle is eaven fallen down & seems expiring give it old Cheese it will have opening in less than ten minutes. This remedy has never failed..."), "Oven cement or for backs of chimneys", "To prevent depredation by mice", "Nuns Puffs", "Vegetable plum pudding", "Lampreys potted another way", "The Norwegian manner of cooking their Ptarmigans... 30 March 1852", "Neapolitan way of boiling macaroni", "Everlasting Syllabub", ending with a section of the usual medicinal and household receipts, including instructions "To show objects by the Magic Lantern" and "To preserve glass plates or looking glass from cracking or injury by transport" and as many as eight remedies for cholera ("adopted in Kings College Hospital with Great Success"), also including a "Universal Fish Table" dated January 1818 signifying which fish are in season, many recipes identified ("Mrs Dampier", "Written down for me by my Irish cook Margaret Berry 1854 – as done at their House") or copied out from cookery books and magazines, various notes in pencil and ink on verso of endpapers including "Mem. Feb. 1834. Our present cook has a Book on Cookery... Mrs J Taylor thinks is the book she has seen its title is [...]ew London Cookery & complete Domestic...by a Lady publ by G Vertue 26 Ivy Lane London", with a printed advertisement for Cooke's curry paste and household hints tipped into front, 196 numbered pages, 6 blank leaves, on I Portal and fleur de lis watermarked paper, slight spotting but generally in fresh, attractive condition, bookplate of Arnold Shircliffe, New York, later quarter calf, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt 'Receipts', slightly scuffed, folio (370 x 240mm.), first half nineteenth century