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COOKERY
Manuscript culinary recipe book of Ann Tarleton, c.1740

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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COOKERY

Manuscript culinary recipe book of Ann Tarleton, containing recipes (as listed in the contents page) for "The Making of Jews Chocolate" (this recipe headed "To Make Chocolate Cake. – As they Jews Do in London"), "Preserved Sweetmeats./ Candys & Rock-Candy Sweetmeats./ Desert-Dishes of Various Kinds./ Large & Small Cakes./ French Bread./ Made Wines...", with a full list of 182 recipes contained in the volume; engraved title illustration inscribed "Ann Tarleton No 7. May the 14th 1740", c.160 leaves written in an elegant eighteenth century hand mostly on one side only, although with occasional recipes on facing pages, contents page inset, modern morocco, original morocco gilt 'Anne/ Tarleton' labels on both covers, 4to, c.1740

Footnotes

Loosely inserted into this unusually attractive recipe book is a four-leaf gathering listing menus of celebratory meals hosted in 1751, beginning with "Mrs Clayton's Entertainment for the Marriage of her Neice Parker to Mr. Tarleton June 25: 1751", with the note: "Supper the first Night upon China". This was the marriage of John Tarleton (1719–1773) of Aigburth, Liverpool, merchant and shipowner in the sugar and slave trades, and Mayor of Liverpool in 1764, to Jane (d. 1797), daughter of Banastre Parker of Cuerden, Lancashire. Their son, Banastre, cavalry commander during the American war, subject of Reynolds's portrait and lover of 'Perdita' Robinson, was to be born in 1754. The menu of a "Side Table Desert" for 26 June 1751 (including lemon possets, jellies, strawberries and cream, flummery in spices, cherries and West India sweetmeats) is subscribed "Every Course upon Blue & White China and the Desert intermixt with Glass of various Kinds".

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