Cookbook of Grace Blome [manuscript], 1697.
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Title
Cookbook of Grace Blome [manuscript], 1697.
Description
1 v.
Scope and content
Contains numerous cooking recipes. Also includes at the end, a chronological description of the progressive distemper of Grace's father, John Blome, his treatment by Drs Fuller, Needham and others, and a report of the autopsy, 1684 (leaves 102-104v); list of the births and deaths of John and Jane Blome and their family (leaf 105); and a Pindaric ode "On the much lamented death of that incomparable Lady the hon[erable] Lady[Elizabeth?] Oxenden . . . by Mrs. Randolph," 1696, (Foxon R110) (leaves 107-108).
Note
Leaf 6: "Grace Blome her booke, December the 24th Friday anno din 1697".
Index of recipes at the beginning.
Poem listed in the Folger index of first lines. First line: Ah! 'tis too much, relentless fate.
10 leaves removed from front and restored to original place at end.
Index of recipes at the beginning.
Poem listed in the Folger index of first lines. First line: Ah! 'tis too much, relentless fate.
10 leaves removed from front and restored to original place at end.
Historical background
The Blome family came from Savenoaks, Kent.
Publications about material
Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p. 89.
Provenance
[Lambarde family MS]
Formerly Folger MS Add 509.
Formerly Folger MS Add 509.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 10-December 30, 1999.
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Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.301
Folgerpedia article about Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.301 (with partial transcription)
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.301
Folgerpedia article about Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.301 (with partial transcription)
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.301
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Kent.
Item Details
Call number
V.b.301
Folger accession
MS Add 509