Receipt book [manuscript]. / Anne Jodrell, 17 century

[England], circa 1776.

1 volume.

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FAST ACC 271931 (quarto)

Purchase made possible by The Colt Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: " [COOKERY.] A RECIPE BOOK OF ANNE JODRELL (Mrs Christopher Clitherow). [Hertfordshire, 1776?, and later]. Manuscript in ink, 4to (190 x 155mm), pp. [iv], 3-14, 17-20, 23-32, 31-36, 45-72, 75-90, 100-101, 104-108; plus [49] (many of them blanks, including some additional recipes pinned in); then from the other end: pp. [ii], 29, 29-40, [1], 42-45; bound in late 18th century vellum, rebacked perhaps in the early 20th century, rubbed but sound. A good manuscript cookery book begun in the late eighteenth century by Anne Jodrell, whose name is on the upper pastedown; the recipes, however, are in many different hands and it must have been compiled over many years. The date of 1776 is from a much later note pasted into the volume by Anne's great-grandaughter E.M. Hutton, dated 1913. From this it appears that Anne Jodrell is to be identified with the daughter of Gilbert Jodrell and Anne Vanderplank. She married Christopher Clitherow of Bird's Place, Essendon, Hertfordshire, and the book descended through her daughter Emma Elizabeth Clitherow. E.M. Hutton was the wife of Col. George Morland Hutton, and their daughter Evelyn Lucia Millicent married the Hon. Richard Bethell: their son became the 5th Lord Westbury, and his bookplate is also in the volume. This recipe book has suffered considerably more than the other, and has several leaves missing, but many of the recipes are attributed to friends, neighbours and relations. Those named include Mrs Hulse (a frequent contributor), Mr Richardson, Mrs Dudley, Mr Harcourt, Mr Reynardson, Miss Nourse and Mrs Morton. It looks as though the social circle of Anne Jodrell and her immediate descendants was a little less exalted than that of Polley Lee, but Bird's Place seems to have been a large house and no doubt she had some social standing. Samuel Vanderplank seems to have been wealthy, and as his co-heir she would herself have brought significant money to the marriage." Ordered from Christopher Edwards D9377, 2019-06-28, email quote.