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
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