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D5430 - Wright family of Eyam Hall - [14th cent]-1994
- 50 - Cookery books and recipes - 17th cent-19th cent

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D5430/50/4
Title	Parchment-bound recipe book inscribed 'Mary Farewell her Book 1721'
Date	1721-[late 18th cent]
Description	Contains household recipes, written in several hands, with index near back of volume. Page 1 Cowslip wine; To make Gellyes of Currans or Rasberryes Page 2 To make cheese balls; How to make a Rice Poden [pudding]; To make Sauce for Green Geese Page 3 To make a Orange Gelly pudding; An Orange Pudding; To fry cherries - Mrs Phill Balguy Page 4 To make a Tansey - Mrs Phill Balguy; To make Gravy for Sauces; To Frigacy [fricassee] Chickens or Rabbits Page 5 To make force meat; To pickle mango Cucumbers; To pickle oysters Page 6 To make a good Cake […] Page 7 To pickle Cucumbers; To make Catchup; A sauce for Ducks; To make pan puddings; To make a plain Garth[?] Cake; To make nice Custards Page 8 To roast a Shoulder of mutton in Blood; To pickle Pidgeons; Segoe [Sago] Gelly; Hartshorn Flummery Page 9 Sauce for a Cods Head; Sliced Cucumbers Page 10 To make a Segoe [Sago] Pudding; To coller Eels Page 11 To make Orange cream; An Apple pudding - Aunt Rossington[?] Page 12 To make Wiges; to Pickle Codlins like Mango Page 13 To make Orange […?]; To roast a breast of Veal - Mrs Hayes Page 14 To make Cabbidge soup - Lady Cliffen[?]; To make fish soop - Lady Cliffen Page 15 To dress a Calves liver; Hummangere[?]; How to make a Gooseberry Puding of Bottled Berrys or Green Page 16 A Potato puding; To make Rice Puding; To make a Carrot Puding; A Light Boyled Puding Page 17 To make Ratefea Biskitts; To make Gingerbread; To make Queen[?] Cakes Page 18 To make Portugall Cakes; To make A Seed Cake Page 19 To pickle Wallnuts [2 recipes] Page 20 To pickle Kidney Beans, Elder Buds and Ash keys; To pickle Purslane; To make Gooseberry Vinegar Page 21 To make Green Gooseberry wine; To make Ginger Wine; How to make Orange Wine Page 22 to make Shrub - Mrs Freeman; To make Raisin Wine - Mrs Hayns Page 23 To make Elder Berry Wine Page 24 To make Cakes Page 25 Note from S Downs to Mr Wright about executing a deed and note from John Wright regarding the same, written above the recipe to make Clara[?] Wine Page 26 A Calves foot Pie; Doctor Clegg's receipt for the Itch Page 27 To make Raisin Wine Page 28 To make Cheese Cakes; To make Sago puffs Page 29 A receipt to make a grantham pudding; To make Currant Jelly Page 30 To make Cheese Cakes; Walnut Catchup Page 31 To make elder flower Wine Page 32 To make a Calf’s foot pudding Page 33 A good boil'd pudding Page 34 To make a Cake Page 35 To Make an Olio Pie (heading only) Page 36 For a Cold - Mrs Bower; For a weakness - Mrs R Page 37 To make Elderflower Wine Page 38 a Plumb Cake - Mrs Skelton; the Duchess of Devonshire receipt to make nice tea cakes Page 39 A Rice Cake [blank pages] Page 40 Daffis Elixir - Mrs Balguy [blank pages] Page 41 Lady Falconbridge's receipt for Cononstion[?] Water; To make Eye Water Page 42 A Receipt to Cure the Biting of a Mad Dog Loose receipes on scraps of paper: [gooseberry wine? and furniture polish?] At the back of the volume are some household accounts dated 1740s, recording sale of a calf and purchase of meat, as well as memoranda of visits by family and incidental expenses; also a poem ' Cold Darby and Jone'.
Extent	1 volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Wright family of Eyam Hall
Copies	D1322/Z4
Term	Recipes
Term	Food
Archivist Note	Catalogue updated by Mark Smith 19/01/2024 to cross refer to a photocopy in another collection

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