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18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK
估價
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
招標截止
描述
- Manuscript Recipe Book
Containing c.150 culinary, medical, and household receipts (“To Pickle Lemons”, “Cancer Oil”, “a varnish for Mahogony Tables”), including many puddings, sauces, and soups, most of the entries recording the source of the recipe (“Potatoe Soup. Mrs Truesdale”), later entries in different hands, 59 pages, plus blanks, 4to, dated on the front endpapers (“Begun in the year 1772 | Margt. Portens") with this note then inaccurately copied below, names and addresses of tradesmen added at the end (2 pages), contemporary stiff vellum boards, soiled, upper hinge weak
來源
Margaret Porteous;
Thence by descent in the family, to Rev. Beilby Porteous Hodgson (1808-89), Hartburn, Northumberland;
Thence by inheritance to his nephew, Oswald Augustus Smith (1826-1902)
Thence by descent in the family, to Rev. Beilby Porteous Hodgson (1808-89), Hartburn, Northumberland;
Thence by inheritance to his nephew, Oswald Augustus Smith (1826-1902)
拍品資料及來源
"...Spunge Biscuits.
Half a pound of Loaf Sugar, Half a pound of Eggs, & a quarter of a pound of flour, beat the whites in one pan & the yolks & Sugar in another, let them be beat very well & then stir them together, stir the flour in with a little grated lemon peel. Bake it half an hour if put into one pan...”
Half a pound of Loaf Sugar, Half a pound of Eggs, & a quarter of a pound of flour, beat the whites in one pan & the yolks & Sugar in another, let them be beat very well & then stir them together, stir the flour in with a little grated lemon peel. Bake it half an hour if put into one pan...”