First published in 1759. One of the most lively and immediate of the 18th-century cookery books. William Verrall's dictation to an amanuensis shows well the life-style of the gentry in an English county town and in the country around. Verrall was a pupil of M de St Clouet, the Duke of Newcastle's cook, and later became a well-known innkeeper renowned for his sophisticated food.
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William Verrall was master of the White Hart, an important coaching station on the High Street of Lewes, Sussex in the middle of the 18th Century. He had been apprenticed to the Duke of Newcastle's cook, the Frenchman St. Clouet, and his recipes are an inspired combination of the French and English Traditions
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