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Title: [Cookery book].
Creator: Cross family.
Brackenbury, John McPherson, Sir, contributor.
Cross, Richard, trombonist.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1724-1740]
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. Many laid in and loose pages. Pro Patria watermark visible on most pages.
Scope/Content: Manuscript cookery book written in many different hands, but apparently belonging to a member of the Cross family, as various Cross family names including Richard, Ann and Thomas Cross appear throughout the volume. Many pages are laid into the volume and contain recipes contributed by different individuals. One laid in sheet at p. [xx] appears to have been written in the late 19th century, and suggests that this volume was used long after its original composition around 1724-1740.
Condition: Bound in vellum with traces of writing, over boards.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
Watermarks (Paper)
Extent: [136] p., bound ;32 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1t89b
f MS.1986.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Cooking--England--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: On front paste-down endpaper, "Richard Cross, 1724" and "for Mr Charlton J Walton in Darbyshire" in two different hands; On back paste-down endpaper, "Richard Cross 1724" and "Ann Cross" in two different hands. Laid it at p. [12]: recipe signed "The undersigned twenty years British Consul at Cadiz... J.M.Brakenbury, Calderstone, Jany 17. 46" and also, in a different hand, a receipt "For Thos. Cross Esq."
Location: CLUW

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