• Reference
    X258
  • Title
    Quarto volume, bound vellum, 106 pages: at front: William Viney, 30 July 1742 Henry Viney not His Book, August 25 1782 loose inside: fragment of letter from C Milstead & Sons, Tenterden, with on dorse sketch of church window at New Romney and note of mon. ins at Lydd (1801), made 7 September 1892. pages 1-67 child's arithmetic (cf p67 " if 1 man's wages comes to 1s.8d per Day..." 68-106 recipes. These are mainly classified: 69 soup 76-773 fish 70-77 meat & game 78-82 sweets (also 95-8, 74, 106) 84-7 pickles 88-94 preserves 99-101 cake page 106 to take iron mould out of linen back cover jaundice
  • Date free text
    1742 - 1782
  • Production date
    From: 1742 To: 1782
  • Admin/biog history
    Mrs Pinny, 27 Park Hill, Ampthill, November 1958. (bought at sale of goods of Avery, Dunstable Street, Ampthill
  • Scope and Content
    68 French rolls 79 quaking pudding 90 preserve plums anchovy sauce tansy gooseberries stiff crust baked rice pudding 91 candy lemons 69 gravy soup 80 curd pudding angelica pea soup orange pudding cherries 70 stewed beef carrott pudding currant jelly stewed hare 81 potato pudding 92 preserve angelica jugged hare pippin pudding fruit "clear cakes" 71 hashed calf's head almond pudding dry plums 72 fridaseee of chicken 82 baked pudding cherries white fricassee rice or millet pudding 93 quince marmalade Scotch collops sago pudding candy any fruit 73 boiled salmon 83 - barberry syrup fish sauce 84 mushroom ketchup 94 currant syrup forced meat balls clove gillyflowers elder syrup roast pig cucumber mango "white leach" 74 sauce for woodcock 85 pickled cucumbers 95 hartshorn jelly pancakes pickled walnuts 96 gooseberry cream roast hare pickled barberries whipped cream boiled carp pickled French beans syllabubs ("weep" ?) 75 fritters pickled cabbage 97 "sollett" syllabubs to salt bacon pickled onions cheese cakes 76 potted beef gooseberry vinegar lemon cheese cakes 77 custard 88 hartshorn jelly 98 almond cheese cakes potted woodcock or partridge mince pies 78 curd pudding 89 preserve rasberries gingerbread gooseberry pudding barberries 99 good cake rice pudding damsons Shrewsbury cakes 100 hard biscuit jumballs Naples Biscuit 101 buns wigs (V.G.) 102 wigs light 103 puff paste v.g. crust icing 104 shrub ratafia 105 venison pasty to keep greesn green when boiled 106 bread pudding to take iron mould out of linen to fine beer (cover) jaundice
  • Format
    bound papers
  • Note: the name Viney is not common in Bedfordshire, but a Viney may have married an Avery. At Staplehurst, Kent, there are the wills of 5 Vineys between 171-49. A Joseph Viney was living in Tenterden in 1754, and John died there 1814.
  • Level of description
    item