The Lady Grace Castleton's booke of receipts [manuscript], 17th century.
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The Lady Grace Castleton's booke of receipts [manuscript], 17th century.
Description
236 p. ; 19 x 15 cm
Associated name
Castleton, Grace Saunderson, Viscountess, -1667, author.
Castleton, Sarah Saunderson, Viscountess, -1717.
Castleton, Sarah Saunderson, Viscountess, -1717.
Scope and content
Contains many cookery receipts including "Lobster pye," "To pickel Lobsters," Chocolatt cream," and "Black cherry cordiall water." Also includes a few medicinal receipts including one for "The oyle of St. Johns woort." Attributions to various receipts are made throughout.
Note
Part 1: 10, 15-24, 27-89, 91-93, 96-229 p.; Part 2 (beginning from rear of volume): 2, 14 p. Pages from part 1 removed: 11-14, 25-26 and 94-95; page 90 skipped in numbering; pages 138-139 and 178-229 blank; tear and repair to p. 172 made to lower right corner, affecting text.
In several hands, probably also of George Saunderson, Viscount Castleton's second wife, Sarah Evelyn, d. 1717.
Title from inside front cover "The Lady Grace Castleton's Bookes of receipts."
Partial list of contents for part 1 on first page of part 2.
In several hands, probably also of George Saunderson, Viscount Castleton's second wife, Sarah Evelyn, d. 1717.
Title from inside front cover "The Lady Grace Castleton's Bookes of receipts."
Partial list of contents for part 1 on first page of part 2.
Binding information
Bound in leather boards with coat of arms stamped on front and back covers; evidence of metal clasps.
Provenance
Formerly Folger MS Add 940.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Forsyth's Hourglass, September 1988.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.
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Cover-to-cover images and transcription of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.600
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.600
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.600
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
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V.a.600
Folger accession
MS Add 940