Manuscript: English cookery manuscript from the Wentworth and Bold families.
A Remarkable Survival
[Cookbooks]. Wentworth and Bold Families. Bold Hall Recipe Book. 1700-1800.
8 x 12 ½ inches; 185 pages of ink manuscript, 280 pages total; old, rough, quarter-calf; boards detached but present.
A family’s manuscript recipe book, passed down from grandmother to granddaughter, and with recipes in four hands. With two indices appended in the rear: “Medicine” (10 pages) and “Cookery” (13 pages). A marvelous and very readable record of the cuisine of the 18th-century English peerage, this includes recipes for Calves Head Hash, Snake Water, Medicine Against the Plague and Oyl for Evil Forces.
Dorothea Wentworth, of Woolsey Hall, passed this book to her granddaughter, Anna Maria Bold (1733-1813), daughter of MP Peter Bold and heiress of Bold Hall. She in turn gave the book to her niece, Anna Maria Paten (1760-?) whose father, Thomas Patten, was from the Patten family of Bank Hall. The transaction was witnessed by the elder Anna Maria’s sister, Everilda. With inscriptions and signatures attesting to the transfer on the first leaf; and on the second leaf, a compelling inscription: Dorothea Wentworth. Her Booke. 1700. This Booke I give to my granddaughter Dorothea Wentworth Jany ‘6th 1724.
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