Recipes Etc by Simpson (1 results)

neat manuscript cookery book in just a couple of hands, hand-numbered, prefatory index, paper watermarked 1809, c. 20 loosely inserted recipes and notes and various cuttings to the pastedowns; a little stained and spotted but wholly legible, pp. 130 (c. 2/3 of the book in use), small 4to, half polished blind tooled goatskin and paper backed boards; rather rubbed, spine end chipped; ownership inscription of Mrs Simpson, Hilton Lodge (Derbyshire), good. Mrs Simpson's recipes include wines and jellies, flummeries, oyster omelette, Oxford dumplings, Adelaide sandwiches, Dutch sauce, German puddings, 'pink colouring for sweets', Alderman's feast, giblet soup, how to stew a cod's head, whiggs, punch and cyder cup. Medicinal and household recipes to rear. Many are named for their originator or donator. Inserted sheets include correspondence on headed paper, and a recipe for pot pourri.…