1. Add MS 56248
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 56248
- Title:
- RECIPE BOOK: recipe collection of Mary, Lady Dacres, for cookery and domestic medicine; 1666-1696. Partly autograph? Most of the cookery recipes are for fruit tarts and other desserts, cakes, preserves and wines. The book was used for cookery recipes through ff. 1-57, and for medical recipes through 109v-58 rev. The inscription to Lady Dacres, who may have been the wife of Sir Robert Dacres of Cheshunt, co. Hertf., occurs on f. 2. The volume was formerly in the Patent Office Library. At f. i...
- Scope & Content:
- Recipes: Medicine and Surgery: Mary Dacres, wife of(?) Sir R Dacres: Cookery: Recipe book of Mary, Lady Dacres: 1666-1696.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1666-1696
- Extent:
- 1 item