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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D258/32/15/1 |
| Former Reference | D258/58/15 |
| Title | Recipe book |
| Date | [17th cent] |
| Description | 1)Mrs Evlyns excellent powder for Convulsion fits 2)For a Rupture 3)Almond Biskit [Biscuit] 4)To make Biskit 5)To make Biskit [2] 6)Lady Arrglasses receit [recipe] 7)To make the round Biskits upon plates 8)To ?Souce a Calves Head 9)To make ?aplom Mrs Wilsons way 10)To make Cheese- Cakes 11)Chocolate Almond: "Take Chocolate grate & searce [sieve] it w[ith] the double quantity of serced [sieved] Sugar then take an equall quantity of oil of Almond & Gum Arabick steeped in water & make it up to a past, beat it a pretty while in a mortar fit it for moulds take it out & dry it on a sieve." 12)A glazing Cream 13)To souce a calves head 14)To make a rock of cream 15)To make a Careaway [caraway]Cake 16)To make a seed cake 17)To make a ginger bread cake 18)To make Amon [Almond] Cheese cake 19)Ginger Bread 20)Goosezberry [gooseberry] wine 21)To roast a ham 22)To pickle mushrooms 23)To candy Oranges and Lemons 24)Pickle cucumbers Mellonds [melons] etc. 25)To make puff pastry WB's way 26)An Orange pudding 27)Another [orange pudding] 28)To make ?palan 29)Fryed patees 30)To roast a pike 31)To make a sack possit [posset] 32)The Frensh [French] way to stew a beast of veale [veal] 33)To dress a legg of veal, to eate cold |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
| Copies | A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Term | Recipes |
| Food |
| Beverages |