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Title: [Cookbook].
Alternative Title: Mss. recipe book.
Creator: Greene, Margrett.
Crauen, John, inscribed name.
Contributor: Norton, T., former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1701-1712]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Some leaves repaired with minimal losses of text.
Scope/Content: Manuscript cookery book compiled by Margrett Greene around 1701. Many different hands contributed recipes and medical remedies to this volume, and Greene used several pages from a 1676 commonplace book begun by "T. Norton" on which to write her index to the recipes collected. Most recipes are unattributed and undated, though one is dated December 5, 1712, and there are several attributed to "Lady Wreckley," "Mrs. Tolbut' and "Dr. Wagstaff."
Condition: Bound in modern brown calf.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
Commonplace books
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: 36, [2], 54-70, [6] p., , bound ;32 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1js5h
f MS.1980.004
Language: English
eng
Subject: Cooking, English--18th century.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--18th century.
Traditional medicine--England--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: On p. 1:"Margrett Greene, Her Booke. January 29th 1701." On p. [6]: "E. libris T Norton: [16]76." On verso of leaf 64: "I John Crauen."
Location: CLUW

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