From dealer's description: "Cookery recipes.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript, 80 1/2 pp. & 2pp. of index excluding blanks, in several hands, reverse entries, some staining in corners, half of 1f. cut away, browned, pencil signature on pastedown “Dora Brabazon Rees”, hinges split, original roan, worn, remains of brass catches on covers, rebacked in later cloth, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1680-1720]. Recipes include: “To drie pears without Suger”; “To preserve Barberries”; “To make Rasberie Wine”; “To salte beefe to drye”; “For mince Pies”; “To make orange Florentine”; “To make Wiggs...”; “To make Puff past” etc."
Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9211, 2018-05-31 ; Forum Auctions "Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper", May 31, 2018, lot 45.
Purchase made possible by The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund.
