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Lot 14

COOKERY & HOUSEHOLD - NORFOLK
Manuscript cookery and commonplace book of Elizabeth L. Winlove of King's Lynn, 1842

10 – 20 March 2025, 12:00 GMT
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COOKERY & HOUSEHOLD - NORFOLK

Recipe and commonplace book of Elizabeth L. Marshall (née Winlove) of King's Lynn, beginning with 30 leaves of writings on virtue, religion, love, envy etc. ("Woman's Revenge/ Is like a Tiger's spring/ Deadly, & quick & crushing"), the remainder written in several hands, comprising over 60 cookery and household receipts such as "...To cure a Ham... Globe Hotel, Kings Lynn, Dec 12th 1867...", "Orange Brandy" ("...Very good... requires shaking or stirring..."), "Worcester Pudding", "Rhubarb Jam", "Pork Pie crust", "Ginger Wine", "Calves Head Hash", "To take Ink out of Linen", "Oils for Horse Wounds", "Drink for Cow before calving" etc., several receipts signed with initials ("E.L.M."), ownership inscription and date "Elizabeth L. Winlove/ 1842" on front free endpaper, 92 leaves, dust-staining and marks, black calf, g.e., worn, housed in a modern custom-made presentation box, 8vo (178 x 110mm.), nineteenth century

Footnotes

RECIPES FROM THE GLOBE HOTEL, KING'S LYNN.

The owner of our receipt book, Elizabeth Lucy Winlove (1823-1882) married Samuel Nicholas Marshall at Snettisham, Norfolk, in 1854, after working together at the Royal Hotel, Norwich where she was an accountant. The Register of King's Lynn Petty Sessions shows that Samuel Marshall became proprietor of Globe Hotel, Kings Lynn on 22 December 1863 and was advertising 'By Royal Appointment' on his letterhead by 1889. Described as a 'hotel keeper and farmer', he also held the lease of the Duke's Head in King's Lynn from June 1855 to Lady Day 1866.

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