Reference
X189/1
Title
Cookery book, 31 pages, 4 x 9", bound brown leather, kept by Mrs Mary Ann Tomson, afterwards Mrs Wheeler, housekeeper of the Cock Inn, Eaton Socon (proprieter H Walker).
Date free text
Circa 1830
Production date
From: 1830 To: 1830
Scope and Content
Recipes include 'Bunns', 'Gingerbread Nuts', 'Bath Cakes' , 'York Biscuit', 'Seed Cakes', 'Captain Biscuit', 'Queen Cakes', 'Sponge Cake', 'Sponge Drops', 'Best Pound Cake', 'Rock Cakes', 'Shortbread', 'Pork Pies'.
Note:
The Cock Inn was a posting-house on the Great North Road. It was closed as an inn in 1845, when it was bought by the Peppercorn family, in whose hands it remained till it was bought in 1924 by Mr A W McNish. (See article in the Beds Times, 28 August 1942, and two further articles in subsequent issues.) It was while Mrs Tomson was there that Princess Victoria visited the house with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, circa 1831.
The account of Princess Victoria's visit was (according to the Beds Times article) afterwards told by C S Beecroft, of Messrs Beecroft, Sons & Nicholson of London, who was visiting the house at the time as a cousin of the hostess and showed the Princess round.
For deeds of Cock Inn, see X200
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