Manuscripts
Cookery of the Elizabethan Period to George IV
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- Description
- The manuscript volume contains recipes for foods such as rice dumplings and stew'd beef, and drinks such as orange wine and beer. The volume also contains household hints such as directions to make varnish, cement, and glue, and recipes for medicines such as the Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. Recipes are ascribed to many cooks such as Elizabeth Hammond's Orange Marmalade or Mrs. Zimmer's meal for two to three persons at a cost of four pence dated 1792. There are several handwritings. The book once belonged to Sir George Musgrave
- Production date
- 1792-1831.
- Call number
- mssHM 58280
- Provenance
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Chevalier, July 11, 1951.
- Dimensions
- 20 cm :
- Associated people
- Musgrave, George, (active 1790,)
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