Cookeries

Folger bibliographic ID: 235897
Folger call number: V.a.561
Folger holdings ID: 289682
Accession Number: MS Add 752

Contains 376 recipes including 5 for eel, many puddings, how to pickle various items, etc. Also includes receipt for Chatham's Punch (laid in with front endleaf). Some recipes attributed to Mrs. Palmer (p. 242-244), Mrs. Thorne (p. 245), Mrs. Osbaldston (p. 246, 265), Mrs. Dorothy Nevil (p. 250-251), Mrs. Atheron (p. 252), Mrs. S.S. (p. 256), Lady Wentworth (p. 257, 261), Mrs. Win: (p. 260), Lady Kays (p. 261), Mrs. An: Byerley (p. 263), Mrs. Eliz: Warton (p. 264-265). All written in a single hand

General notes

Title from title page Includes index at end On page 121: "These receipts following were had from a kook who was five years in King of France kitchin." Also available as a digital reproduction Formerly Folger MS Add 752

Publications

The housewife's rich cabinet : remedies, recipes, and helpful hints / Jean Miller, Francie Owens, Rachel Doggett ; with an introduction by Heloise. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library, 1997, p. 45-46 Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p. 74

Exhibited

Exhibited: Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipies, & Helpful Hints, curated by Rachel Doggett, Jean Miller, & Francie Owens, Folger Shakespeare Library, August 27, 1997-January 31, 1998 Exhibited: Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 10-December 30, 1999

Extended title: Cookeries late 17th century