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    • Author/Creator:Clifton, Ann.
    • Title:Receipts in cookery, 1723-1724.
    • Physical Description:1 v. (178 leaves) ; 33 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: Quarto 49 3165
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Notes:Rebound in calf in the 19th century. Bookplate 1. Labelled on spine: 'Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill .' Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
      • Provenance:Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day v, lot 46, to -- Barnard, Esq., £2; bequeathed to W.S. Lewis in 1957 by the late Langlois Lefroy, Cronebane (Castle Howard), County Wicklow.
       
    • Notes:Bookplate: Horace Walpole, Bookplate, 1st state.
      Note on blue paper pasted on first leaf, from Langlois Lefroy, bequeathing the ms. to W.S. Lewis.
      Title from spine. Full spine title: Receipts in cookery Mss. Horace Walpole Strawberry Hill.
      Binding: Rebound in calf, 19th century, with gilt edges.
      In English.
      Strawberry Hill Sale (1842), v . 46, to Barnard, Esq.; bequeathed to W.S. Lewis in 1957 by the late Langlois Lefroy, Cronebane (Castle Howard), County Wicklow.
    • Access and use:This material is available for research.
    • Summary:A manuscript written by Ann Clifrton in the years 1723-1724 containing 546 receipts for full course meals as well as preserves. The manuscript includes 6 leaves listing suggested "Bills of Fare", three leaves at the beginning and three following the last recipe. The volume ends with a diagrams with "first corse" options and "second corse" options.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • References:Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3165
    • Cite as:Ann Clifton, Receipts in Cookery. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Cooking, English.
      Canning and preserving--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
      Cooking (Herbs)
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Ownership.
      Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Bookplate.
    • Genre/Form:Recipes.