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COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT Collection of cookery and household recipes, compiled by members the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire, together with material from the associated Lyttleton family of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, comprising loose recipes and five recipe books
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COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
Collection of cookery and household recipes, compiled by members the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire, together with material from the associated Lyttleton family of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, comprising loose recipes and five recipe books (into which many have been copied), largely culinary ("...to make Green sweetmeats of Cucumber Oranges Melons &c Mrs Stanleys way...") but interspersed with medical recipes ("...An infallible Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog, brought from Tonquin by Sir George Cobb, Baronett [d.1762]...") and general household recipes ("...To Dye Gloves Purple Miss Yarbourgh may 59..."), comprising;
(i) Some 230 loose recipes, approximately 130 of which are culinary, 70 medical and 30 household, many addressed to Miss Landor in the early nineteenth century
(ii) Early eighteenth century recipe book, upper cover indistinctly inscribed "M[?rs] Elizabeth Norman/ [her] Book of Receipts.../ April/... 17[?]3...", the inner cover inscribed "Leonora Lyttelton", kept in several hands; indices, c.130 pages, light dust-staining to covers, original white vellum, ties, 4to
(iii) Late eighteenth century recipe book, starting with "To Make Sack Mead" and ending with "To Make Cowslip Wine mrs B: way"; index, c.40 pages, usual minor staining and browning, paper wrappers (torn), 4to
(iv) Early nineteenth century recipe book, with the ownership inscription of "C. Landor"; with separate index, 90 pages, marbled boards, quarter calf, 4to
(v) "A Book of Recipes", c.60 pages, wrappers, the upper cover etched with a view of a Drury Lane performance entitled 'The Theatrical Oglers' (the BM example dated c.1770-90), 4to
(vi) Early nineteenth century recipe book, adapted from an account book of 1798-9 incorporating calligraphic arithmetical exercises, c.40 pages, quarter calf, marbled boards, rubbed, 4to (6)
(i) Some 230 loose recipes, approximately 130 of which are culinary, 70 medical and 30 household, many addressed to Miss Landor in the early nineteenth century
(ii) Early eighteenth century recipe book, upper cover indistinctly inscribed "M[?rs] Elizabeth Norman/ [her] Book of Receipts.../ April/... 17[?]3...", the inner cover inscribed "Leonora Lyttelton", kept in several hands; indices, c.130 pages, light dust-staining to covers, original white vellum, ties, 4to
(iii) Late eighteenth century recipe book, starting with "To Make Sack Mead" and ending with "To Make Cowslip Wine mrs B: way"; index, c.40 pages, usual minor staining and browning, paper wrappers (torn), 4to
(iv) Early nineteenth century recipe book, with the ownership inscription of "C. Landor"; with separate index, 90 pages, marbled boards, quarter calf, 4to
(v) "A Book of Recipes", c.60 pages, wrappers, the upper cover etched with a view of a Drury Lane performance entitled 'The Theatrical Oglers' (the BM example dated c.1770-90), 4to
(vi) Early nineteenth century recipe book, adapted from an account book of 1798-9 incorporating calligraphic arithmetical exercises, c.40 pages, quarter calf, marbled boards, rubbed, 4to (6)
Footnotes
'GREEN SWEETMEATS OF CUCUMBER ORANGES MELONS &C' – an extensive collection of recipes belonging to the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire. It is unusual in that the original recipes, as exchanged with friends and neighbours, have been preserved, while some, indeed, have also been copied into at least one of the bound recipe books (that bearing the ownership inscription of "C. Landor"). Some of the recipes, such as that for rabies collected by Sir George Cobb (ob.1762), are well-known and to be found in other sources, as is to be expected; but others appear to be specific to the West Midlands locality and to the family connections of the Landors (from whose ranks the poet Walter Savage hailed). The "Leonora Lyttelton", second owner of the second volume listed above, can be identified as Leonora Rutland, who was born 1736 and in 1772 married Robert Lyttelton, the Lyttletons (or Lytteltons) of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, being great friends of the Landors. Confirmation of this is to be found by the addition by her in the volume of a recipe for "Mrs Rutland's pills & Miss Rutland's purging powder" (p.118); while, among the loose recipes, is one signed by "F. Wheler", addressed "To Mrs Rutland in Warwick" and dated 1756, for preparing "Ketchup after the Manner it is made in The East Indies".