
Lot 6•
COOKERY Manuscript receipt book containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, [eighteenth century]
29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,275 inc. premium
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COOKERY & HOUSEHOLD
Manuscript receipt book written in several hands containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, including "To make Portable Soup", "To make Veal Olives", "Dr Fothergills Pudding", "Créme Velour" (dated 1779), "To make macaroni", "Roll Calves head", "Pickle Samphire", "To make brain cakes" ("Take your brains and slice them"), "To make White Soup" ("...these rolls look like a hedgehog some french cooks gives this soup the name of hedge hog soup it will do very well if you omit the Rolls by the way..."), "To make Picklates", "Tansy Pudding", "Pan Puddings", "To stew Golden Pippins to look like Apricots", "Mrs Wyatts Cakes", "To make Diet Bread", "To make a solid Whip", "Sally Lunns" ("...this is the original recipe & they are a most excellent breakfast cake made at Bath..."), "To make Hartshorn Flummery", "Lady Betty Warburtons receipt of Cowslip Wine", "Green paint for railing", "A gum wash", "For Japaning a Coach", "To clear gold or silver Lace", "For a bruise or a cut", "Pills for a cough", "To Imatate Mahogany", one receipt credited to Miss Denton, 177 numbered pages, five leaves and two half leaves excised, some blanks, dust-staining, marks and ink stains, some small tears and pin holes, original half calf, marbled boards, worn and marked with some loss, 4to (246 x 190mm.), [eighteenth century]