Cropper, Arabella.

containing several hundred recipes for sweets, puddings ("artichoke pudding"), pies, stews, meat dishes ("...To make a Mock Turtle Take a calfs head dress it as you wou'd calf's feet to get off all the hair, open it..."), fish dishes, soups, pickles ("...To Pickle Mushrooms Take small buttons comen up in one night..."), cakes, wines ("Ginger wine for summer"), preserves and marmalades, possets and sillabubs, desserts ("almond pudding with bisketts"), and more, some showing Asian influences such as a mushroom ketchup ("Catchop") and "Indian Pickle", many recipes being found in both volumes, both volumes with contemporary indexes; c.375 pages, 4to (205-210 x 160-165mm.), blanks, in several hands, 18th century, contemporary vellum, hinges split in first volume, spine detached in second, some soiling

Arabella Cropper, daughter of Edward and Frances Cropper; by descent to S. Archer (1868)

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