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Title: [Cookery book].
Creator: Poole, Elenor, fl. 1733.
Cobb, Joh., fl. 1735.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1733-1827]
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.
Scope/Content: Cookery book signed "Elenor Poole her Book 1733" and "Jo.h Cobb 1735". The book is primarily in Elenor Poole's hand, with additional recipes in Cobb's hand, and with one much later accounting note dated March 26, 1872 in an unknown hand. An unusual menu is written towards the end of the book, which appears to be in Elenor Poole's hand, titled "An Anigmatical Bill of Fare, and is made up of dishes with punning titles that translate into real dishes, such as "Pride revers'd in a Pye" (Humble pie) and "The divine part of Man boiled" (Sole). There are also a number of recipes for medical cures, such as "Receipt for the Gout" and "The Balsamic-pills for a Cough."
Condition: Bound in contemporary full vellum.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
Medical formularies
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: 144 p., bound ;21 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n10c8j
MS.2003.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Cooking, British--18th century.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--18th century.
Traditional medicine--England--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Elenor Poole, her Book, 1733 and "Joh. Cobb, 1735" inscribed in two different hands on front paste-down endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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