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Lot 72

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Manuscript culinary recipe book of Mary Hall, containing recipes for cooking, baking and preserving, 1753 and later

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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COOKERY

Manuscript culinary recipe book of Mary Hall, containing recipes for cooking, baking and preserving, including an index of 225 recipes approximately 140 pages written in several eighteenth-century hands, the majority by Mary Hall with flourishes and embellishments, original quarter calf with marbled boards, worn, 4to, 1753 and later

Footnotes

Recipes include: "to stew a Hare", "to stew a Beast Head", "to stew Seals or any other ffish", "to make a sillibub", "to Burn Butter", "a Quakeing Pudding", "to Pickle Samphire", "to colour jellies", "to make Birch wine", "to make flummery", "to make French fritters" and "to make Lemmon pair", and several (later) household hints such as "to polish mahogany tables", "a receipt for a cold" and "to dye the ground of linins Buff colour".

Provenance: "Mary Hall, November the 16th 1753", inscription inside upper cover and first leaf.

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