Recipe Book

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

Anonymous notebook containing recipes, costings amd memoranda concerning wines, spirits, cordials and liqueurs, also a few medicinal recipes.

Interleaved with blotting paper (some interleaves used). Entries dated: 1771 (ff.5v and 6v), 1772 (f.6r), 1778 (f.13r), 1781 (f.13v), 1782 (interleaf facing f.14v and f.44r), 1787 (f.16r) and [17]89 (f.16v). Blank: ff.30-43r; stub only of f.39. Secured with a metal clasp. 'Memorandum' on front cover.

• Date range: 1771-1789
• Date: 1780
• Keywords: Cookery - Early works to 1800, Recipes - Early works to 1800Food Science and Nutrition
• Collection: Cookery Collection
• Physical Identifier: MS 639