COOKERY - MANUSCRIPT Manuscript receipt book bearing ownership inscription of Susanna Jackson and the date '1726' on first leaf, titled 'A/ Collection of/ Choice Receipts in/ COOKERY' on second leaf, containing 328 numbered receipts with calligraphic headings, such as 'To make chocquetlet Creame', 'Sugar of Roses', 'A Friggasae' ('...Take 7 chickens fleay them and joint them in every joynt and break and break ye bones of them...'), 'To make wiggs', 'To make an herbe pudding', 'To preserve Apricocks', 'To make read Colour' ('...Take an ounce of scutchineele...'), 'To Make March Payne', 'To Pickle Lettice Stalke', 'To Drye all Sorts of Plums', 'A Frieday Dish', 'To cand[y] Eringo Roots', 'To make a Quakeing Pudding', 'To make artificall claret wine', 'To make Queens Cakes', 'To make Catchup', 'To make a Shakeing Dish of Veal' ('...lay your olives round your dish...'), 'To make my Ldy Howard Green pease potage', 'To make a Botalo Pie', and much else, a few attributed ('Sister Ester Receipt', 'Mrs Bland receipt'), 154 pages, dust-staining, marks and water stains, edges frayed and discoloured, small tears, original vellum, stained and marked, worn, 4to (185 x 147mm.), 1726 Footnotes: 'TAKE 7 CHICKENS FLEAY THEM AND JOINT THEM IN EVERY JOYNT': AN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RECEIPT BOOK. The identity of Susanna Jackson has not been ascertained, but references within such as 'my Lady Howard' and 'Scriptum per M.R.H.' suggest she was part of the household of a member of the Howard family in the first quarter of the eighteenth-century. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing