MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK – DURHAM

Household recipe book, bearing the ownership inscriptions of "Henrietta Wharton" c.1792 onwards

Household recipe book, bearing the ownership inscriptions of "Henrietta Wharton" with "Old Park" written in another hand on inside front board, and that of her husband "Richd Wharton Old Park/ Neigh Bpp Auckland" on inside leaf, comprising culinary and medicinal receipts in several hands, including "Raspberry Wine equal to Burgundy", " Yorkshire Cakes", "Poor Squires", "Worcestershire Rolls", "Charcoal Soup", "Lady Delaware's Orange Puddings", "White Catchup Old Park", the "Receipt for Sally Lunns Mrs Needs' Bakers at Bath" is illustrated with a diagram ("...The mode of buttering her is extremely material. She must be cut horizontally into three, buttered, & then divided into quarters... after which Sally must be put into the oven again for a few minutes... Her form is so regular that perhaps she is baked in a tin..."), "To keep butter two years", "Brain Sauce", "To cure frozen Limbs", "To prevent colours running in Washing", "Cure for the bite of a Cobra di Capello", "Opening Pills", "Method of destroying the Putrid smell which meat acquires during hot weather", "Stone color – Auckland Castle", "For making Leather Water proof", some later recipes attributed with names or initials ("Mrs Rt Wharton", "O.P.", "Mrs Ingilby"); household notes including instructions for weaving ("...Kitchen table cloths sheet 9d Pound spun to 20 cuts N.B. Mrs Hutchinson wheel is 5 quarters long..."), the names of tradesmen ("Wallis & Vasey... Flax-dresser/ John Kidd Newcastle"), and a "receipt for boiling yarn" ("...let the yarn be well covered and boil it slowly... let it be well rubbed between the hands, ant beat upon a table to make it smooth..."), index at end, last two leaves inverted, 149 leaves, 65 blanks, browning, spotting and usual wear, contemporary quarter calf, defective, c.1792 onwards