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Recipe book of Elizabeth Preston [manuscript] Late 17th or early 18th century

Preston, Elizabeth, 1650-1732, associated name.; Lowther, Katherine, 1698- associated name.
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Title
Recipe book of Elizabeth Preston [manuscript] Late 17th or early 18th century
Created/published
England, Late 17th or early 18th century.
Description
1 item ; 320 x 200 x 30 mm
Associated name
Preston, Elizabeth, 1650-1732, associated name.
Lowther, Katherine, 1698- associated name.
Note
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England, -- publication place.

Call number
273102 MS
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "PRESTON, Elizabeth (née Bradshaigh) (1650-1732); LOWTHER, Katherine (b.1698)]. English Late 17th-early 18th-Century Household Manuscript. [England. Holker Hall, Lancashire? Circa 1670-1730]. Folio (320 x 200 x 30 mm). Approximately 313 text pages on 220 leaves, including endpapers, including two leaves inserted (presumably sent as separates): f.130 folds and bearing Arms of London watermark; f.137 folds and bearing Pro Patria watermark. Fore-edges tabbed, torn with loss to original text, but “Distill’d W[aters]” and “Swett[s]” extant. Contemporary blind-stamped full calf, rubbed and worn. Elizabeth Preston was a shrewd 17th-century businesswoman who not only reversed the declining fortunes of her late father’s estates but, as is evident from our manuscript, passed her accumulated knowledge to her granddaughter, making this an heirloom manuscript, whereupon the latter enthusiastically added to the contents. An inscription to front endpaper verso reads “Eliz: Preston Resept Book” in dark ink, with a note beneath in lighter ink: “which I giue to my grandoughtor Mrs Kathren Lowther June ye 26 (1721”. Other names – such as “Pennington”, which occurs several times in the manuscript – help us to triangulate these clues and establish our scribes. Elizabeth Preston (née Bradshaigh) was the daughter of Sir Roger Bradshaigh (1627/8-84) and Elizabeth (née Pennington) (1640-67), daughter of William Pennington of Muncaster. Elizabeth and Roger married in 1647 and had four sons and—given her name—she was probably the eldest of their three daughters. Elizabeth married Thomas Preston (1647-97) in 1675 [...]"

Ordered from Dean Cooke, D9798, 2025-02-05, Words and Ink cat. item #1.
Folger accession
273102