Manuscript cookery book [manuscript].
1707
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Details
Title
Manuscript cookery book [manuscript].
Created/published
England, circa 1707.
Description
2 vols.
Note
"Susanna Banner Her Book June the 7th 1707"
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This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271390 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Early eighteenth century recipe book bearing the ownership inscription "Susanna Banner Her Book June the 7th 1707" (also that of Ann Turner), comprising recipes running up until 1742, written in several early eighteenth century hands (nearly all culinary but interspersed, as usual, with a few medicinal), some attributed (most to a Mrs Ellys), including recipes "to doe Oysters in scholop shell", "to make whip Sullibubs", "to bake a Pigg", "to make puff paste", "A most Excellent medican against the Plague", "a florentine of spinedge", "a purgation against mallincholy", "To boyle pigeons with rice", "to make a Lemon puding this is a very good receet", "To make Almond Cheesecakes", "To Make Wallnut Ketchup", and many others, c.180 pages, usual slight signs of wear but overall in good sound and attractive condition, original vellum boards, small 4to. Second volume is smaller and in 12mo format. This is more damaged and has been rebound in the mid or late 19th century. Whilst the first book is more culinary, this one is considerably more medicinal, some 330 recipes. There is no ownership mark but there are several recipes which mention people - mainly of the nobility (British class system alive and well in the early 18th c - as it is now)." Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D916, 2018-06-22 ; Forum Auctions "Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photograps", June 20, 2018, lot 23.
Folger accession
271390