Culinary recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription and date "H ffarington/ Shawe Hall/ 1806", written in several hands, containing receipts such as "for Six people each a Meal", "To make Kendal Wigs" ("...do not bake them too much..."), "Crocketts", "Cowslip Vinegar", "Prussian Soup the Queen brought to England", "Ship Biscuits", "To smoak Hams in the Westmoreland way" ("...remain in the chimney six weeks at least... the side of an open Chimney at a proper height is the best situation..."), "Artificial Yeast", "Cambridge Pickle for Brawn", "On Boiling Potatoes" ("...which will take from half an hour to an hour and a quarter according to their size..."), "A Scotch Woodcock", "Chinese method of making Tea", "Beautiful Breakfast Rolls", "Giblet Soup", "Meat Lozenges", "Poultry ground food except barley for sitting hens", many attributed ("Mrs Hall/ Ferry Bridge Inn", "Mrs Middlemore", "Mrs Fairbairn"), several receipts crossed through, ending with menu suggestions and indices, a few recipes and various newspaper cuttings such as 'Receipt for diminishing the Consumption of Flour' stuck in throughout, c.176 pages, browning, staining, signs of wear, contemporary vellum-backed boards, heavily rubbed, inner hinges taped, 4to (190 x 160mm.), 1806 onwards; with another late eighteenth century receipt book containing some 200 culinary and household recipes, including instructions on how to make "Coffee for twelve people", "To Pickle Pigeons", "Thick Apple Jelly" and "To Kill Mice", c.1797 (2)

Footnotes

The owner of this first book, Hannah ffarington, was the second wife of William ffarington of Shawe Hall, Leyland, Lancashire, whom she married in 1803. The ffaringtons were an ancient county family and provided several Sheriffs of the county; another William ffarington had been painted by Arthur Devis in the mid 1740's. Shawe Hall was renowned for its collection of antiquities purchased by her husband's uncle on the Grand Tour - 'a large regular stuccoed pile, containing a suite of apartments uses as a museum stored with natural curiosities, busts, marbles & co., and a collection of paintings, some of them found in the ruins of Herculaneum...' (William Farrer, Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911).

Saleroom notices

The first work is contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in modern vellum, not "contemporary vellum-backed boards"

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MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - LANCASHIRE Culinary recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription and date "H ffarington/ Shawe Hall/ 1806"; with another, c.1797 (2)

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