Cookbook of Susanna Packe [manuscript], 1674.
Packe, Susanna, active 1674, author.

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Title
Cookbook of Susanna Packe [manuscript], 1674.
Description
314 p.
Associated name
Packe, Susanna, active 1674, author.
Scope and content
Classified cookbook, neatly kept; each section with a heading and the date 1674. Additions in a large rough hand. Includes some simple remedies.
Note
A few pages missing.
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Historical background
This Susanna Packe may be the third daughter of Sir Christopher Packe, Lord Mayor of London, who married Sir Thomas Bellot, bart., in 1675.
Publications about material
Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p. 74.
Provenance
Formerly Folger MS Add 198.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 10-December 30, 1999.
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Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.215
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Medical formularies.
Cookbooks.

Item Details

Call number
V.a.215
Folger accession
MS Add 198