Manuscript cookery book, ca. 1750.
[Cook books] [C]lufe, Mrs. Anne. MANUSCRIPT: Cookery Book. [King Street near St James
Pickedaly near St James Park]. Ca. 1750.
12mo.; ink manuscript; pp. 118 of which 65 with manuscript recipes; well-used; with a number of pages
removed at the end; original calf; worn.
Manuscript recipe book including medicinal, gustatory, and domestic recipes such as Catch-up of
Mushrooms, Orange cheesecakes, Beer Cakes, Raisin Wine, To Make Mince Pyes without Meat, To
make Black Ink, Green Ointment, Mr Stibbard’s Receipt to destroy Rats, A Receipt to Cure the Dropsy
and For the Gout, with a few others loosely inserted including Cure for the Piles. A "Method of Making
Stilton Cheese," results in a white cheese rather than the expected blue variety. The recipe is labour
intensive and "The dairy Maid is not to be dishearten’d if she does not succeed perfectly in the first
attempt."
We have be unable to trace Mrs. Clufe, a woman well-connected enough to record a recipe “for the gout … given by Admiral Stevens to Mr Lane” – the recipe, not the gout.
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