Title:
'Mrs Elizabeth Slany's Book of Receipts &ca 1715' [inside front cover]
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
GRAY AND ROUND FAMILIES OF BIRCH, COLCHESTER AND DISTRICT
Level: Sub-Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS
Level: Sub-Series
Elizabeth Slany's recipe book
Scope and Content:
Cookery book, with sections for preserves, cordials and wines, cakes, sweets, pastries and pies, meat and fish, pickles, medicines, salves and ointments, and contemporary index. At end, a large number of later additions in different hands.
Dates of Creation:
1715
Extent:
1 volume
Admin History:
Elizabeth Slany was born near Worcester, and married Benjamin Lehook of Acton, Middlesex, factor; she died in 1786, aged 93. Her daughter Elizabeth Lehook (died 1799) married Samuel Wegg of Acton (1723-1802), son of George Wegg of Colchester. For further details see John H. Round, 'Pedigree of Wegg', in The Genealogist, new series 11; a copy is available in the Essex Record Office in Round Pamphlets, volume 3 (ERO Library 942.67).
Access:
Not to be produced: use digital images available on SEAX.
Physical Characteristics:
Original vellum binding.
196 x 161 x 19 mm.
Related Unit of Description:
Loose paper additions, found scattered in volume, extracted and catalogued separately as D/DR Z1A. For notes on contents see D/DR Z1B.
Publication Notes:
For a description see Daphne E. Smith, 'Mistress Elizabeth Slany's book of recipes', in Essex Countryside 14, February 1966, pp. 250-251.
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