Title:
Recipe book
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS
Scope and Content:
Twelve recipes, relating mainly to pastry-making but also to the making of cakes and the preparation of certain meats.
Written in a small neat 'legal' hand; the volume is largely blank.
Dates of Creation:
c.1680
Extent:
1 volume
Creator Name:
Unknown.
Admin History:
According to Vaughan (p.72), this volume was 'handed down in the Clapton-Rolfe family, whose forefathers lived at Rayne Hall in Essex from the time of Queen Anne to the middle of the nineteenth century'.
Access:
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Physical Characteristics:
Original vellum cover with metal clasp.
164 x 107 x 18 mm.
Related Unit of Description:
For description and commentary see Eliza Vaughan, 'High baked meats and patty pan past', in Essex Review 46 (1937), pp.72-77.
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