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"Blanch Hooker, 12 Nov. 1691." Collection of recipes.

1691and later

From: 1691 To: 1700

Folio volume, bound calf; only 39 folios at front and 19 ff. at end are written on. Folios 1-28 are apparently in Blanch Hooker's hand and are indexed. There are 24 recipes for preserving fruit, and 7 for drying fruit, including cakes (folios 3,5,10-12), and wine (f.6). There are no meat or fish dishes. Sources: (rarely given) grandmother St. Joan, Mrs. Gawton, "C. of Licester." ff. 29-35 in a (?) later but similar hand; other recipes for cakes, sweets, wine; sources: Mrs. Cockange, Aunt Lucie, Lady Pickering, Mrs. Coacking, Lady Monoux, Mrs.Carey, Lady Irwin, Mrs. Cater. ff. 35d, 36: accounts. ff. 37-8 in another hand: note on woody nightshade, and a few recipes (fricasse of chicken, ham, pigeons, raison and orange wine;) at end: ff. 1-15: various recipes for meat etc. in Blanch Hooker's hand, including soused pig, oyster pie, calfs' foot pie, bacon, pickled smelts, sheep's head pie, forcemeat etc.; with some for sweets, e.g. "taffatie tarts;" sources: Mrs. Gawton, "my mother"; ff. 16-19: in another hand, recipes for pickles, cakes, wine; sources: Mrs. Cockayne, Mr. Cotton, Lady Monoux, Mrs. Worth, Cousin Hacket, Lady Bromsall; f. 17: recipe for ague in another hand; source, Mr. Mackay of Huntingdon; f. 19: ague; Lady Ludlow.

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