MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - LANCASHIRE

Farmhouse recipe notebook of "Lena Wadsworth, Catteralls Farm, Clayton le Dale, Nr Blackburn", c.1912 (4)

Farmhouse recipe notebook of "Lena Wadsworth, Catteralls Farm, Clayton le Dale, Nr Blackburn", written in several hands, including culinary and household receipts, such as "How to make cracklins", "Wedding Cake", "Colts Foot Wine", "Funeral Biscuits", "To clean a house that is filthy", "Yorkshire Puddin" ("...When serving Yorkshire Pudding, have it first & gravey thickened with flour serve potatoes ect after and rice or sago pudding last..."), "For a Swelling", "For a cow that as a very bad cold", with contributions from friends, family and neighbours ("William Appletree", "Mrs Yates's Mother", "Aunt Sally", "Miss Taylor, Hebden Bridge"), index, some pages excised, 132 pages, browned and stained throughout, black calf with brass clasp, worn with some losses, oblong 8vo (97 x 162mm.), late nineteenth/early twentieth century; together with "Receipt book belonging to Mrs Ellis Everett/ To be carefully used", endorsed "inherited the above Recipe Book from her Grandmother Mrs Ellis Everett née Gertrude Walker/ 1941", with ownership inscription and date "1897" inside, comprising culinary recipes such as "Adelaide Sandwiches", "Snow Cake", "Queen Mabs Pudding", "Scotch Woodcock", "Profitte Rolls", "Gunner's delight", index at end, various newspaper cuttings stuck in throughout, some loose recipes, 137 numbered pages, stained and worn, cloth with homemade brown paper dust-jacket, frayed with loss, 8vo ( 176 x 110mm.), c.1897 to 1940's; Butcher's recipe book, including recipes for sausages, white and black pudding, peas pudding, pork pies, suckling pig, brawn, etc., list of sauces, manufacturers and accounts reversed at rear, c.220 pages (c.70 blank), original vellum pocket account book with clasp, stained, 8vo (180 x 110mm.), early twentieth century; and another culinary recipe book containing some 80 recipes, with thumb index ("Soups", "Fish", "Savouries", "Jams" etc.), c.300 pages (mostly blank), brown calf gilt, c.1912 (4)