Manuscript recipe book.

including entries for various types of cakes, puddings, wines, pies, broths, meat and fish dishes, and pickles and preserves, examples including "The Dutchmans Receipt to keep walnuts all the winter", "To Preserve Hole Oranges Mrs Otways way", "A Craw fish soope", "Cuttletts Allamanteney" and "an olive pye"; one section headed "Some Receipts out of Mrs Crisps Cook"



132 pages (contemporary pagination to p.114), with a contemporary 22-page index tipped-in on the front free endpaper, a few blanks at the end, mostly in two eighteenth-century hands, with a few later recipes loosely inserted,  oblong 8vo (180 x 240 mm.), [mid- to late eighteenth century], contemporary panelled calf gilt, covers quite worn, rebacked, corners repaired

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