c1790 Handwritten Cookbook

Description

Leather Binding

Bound in a full vellum binding which was made and sold by 'G. Mason', a bookseller and binder at 6 North Audley Street Grosvenor Square. We would date this around 1790 accordingly. 

This is a very pleasing late Georgian cookbook, handwritten and containing a range of interesting recipes from the time period. 

Contents include 'Oxford Puddings', 'To Roast Lobster', 'Very Good Fritters', and 'To Stew Pears'. This cookbook also includes additional recipes which have been inserted loosely into the text, and presumably collected from the writer's friends. These include 'To Make Black Currant Wine'  and 'To Make Rasberry Vinegar', from a 'Mrs. Mills' and 'Mrs. Plumer'. 

With over one-hundred and twenty recipes, followed by additional blank pages and a recipe from a later owner, intended 'For the Poor'.